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Title: Does School Quality Matter? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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1. Betts, Julian R.
Does School Quality Matter? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Working Paper No. 93-10, Department of Economics, University of California - San Diego, March 1993
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Keyword(s): Benefits, Fringe; Human Capital; School Quality; Wage Differentials; Wage Effects; Wage Levels

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The working paper investigates links between school quality and subsequent earnings of students. It uses data for white males from the NLSY and rejects the hypothesis that workers' earnings are independent of which high school they attended. Nevertheless, the traditional measures of school "quality" such as class size, teachers' salaries and teachers' level of education fail to capture these differences. This result is robust to changes in specification and subsample. This paper contrasts the results with those of Card and Krueger (1992), and speculates that structural changes may have weakened the bond between conventional measures of school quality and student outcomes.
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Betts, Julian R. "Does School Quality Matter? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Working Paper No. 93-10, Department of Economics, University of California - San Diego, March 1993.