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Title: The Impact of School Resources on Women's Earnings and Educational Attainment: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women
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1. Betts, Julian R.
The Impact of School Resources on Women's Earnings and Educational Attainment: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women
Discussion Paper No. 1108-96, Institute for Research on Poverty, September 1996.
Also: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/dps/pdfs/dp110896.pdf
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; High School Diploma; Labor Market Outcomes; Racial Differences; Schooling, Post-secondary; Wage Models; Wages, Young Women; Women's Education

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This research measures the impact of high school resources on women's educational attainment and earnings. No link emerges between education and school resources, whether measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, spending per pupil, teachers' starting salaries, or books per student. For white women, no significant connection between school resources and wages is found. But school inputs are in several cases significantly and positively related to black women's wages. Wage elasticities with respect to school inputs are uniformly larger for black women. Finally, the impact of school resources on earnings remains constant or in some cases depreciates as workers grow older.
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Betts, Julian R. "The Impact of School Resources on Women's Earnings and Educational Attainment: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women." Discussion Paper No. 1108-96, Institute for Research on Poverty, September 1996.