This paper revisits the issue of estimating the returns to schooling within a framework that allows multiple unobserved skills with potentially time-varying prices where both skills and prices are possibly correlated with schooling. A common approach to addressing the problem of ability bias...

This paper presents a new approach to constructing multistep combination forecasts in a nonstationary framework with stochastic and deterministic trends. Existing forecast combination approaches in the stationary setup typically target the in-sample asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE), relying...