The taste for leisure, career choice, and the returns to education
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We develop a simple methodology to estimate the returns to education despite heterogeneous labor/leisure preferences. The labor supply behavior of doctors and physician assistants is consistent with people choosing between the two careers based on differing tastes for leisure. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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