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1.	Betts, Julian R.
1.	Do School Resources Matter Only For Older Workers? Review of Economics and Statistics 78,4 (November 1996): 638-652. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2109951 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Earnings; Educational Returns; Educational Status; Occupational Status; Schooling; Wage Growth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The literature that examines the impact of school spending on students' subsequent earnings is bifurcated into state-level studies, which typically find strong effects, and school-level studies, which find little effect. Since most of the school-level studies examine young workers, one explanation for the discrepancy is that school inputs benefit workers only as they gain job experience. The paper tests the hypothesis by using both school-level (NLSY) and state-level data sources (Census and the Biennial Survey of Education). Both data sets suggest that these is typically no significant age dependence. Thus other explanations of the discrepancy are likely to explain the differing results. (ABI/Inform)
	Bibliography Citation Betts, Julian R. "Do School Resources Matter Only For Older Workers?" Review of Economics and Statistics 78,4 (November 1996): 638-652.

2.	Betts, Julian R.
2.	Does School Quality Matter? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Review of Economics and Statistics 77,2 (May 1995): 231-250. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2109862 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Earnings; High School; School Quality; Schooling; Wage Levels; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The paper searches for links between school quality and subsequent earnings of students. Using data for white males from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the paper rejects the hypothesis that workers' earnings are independent of which high school they attended. However, 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. The paper contrasts the results with those of D. Card and A. B. Krueger (1992) and speculates that structural changes may have weakened the link between traditional measures of school quality and student outcomes.
	Bibliography Citation Betts, Julian R. "Does School Quality Matter? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Review of Economics and Statistics 77,2 (May 1995): 231-250.

3.	Betts, Julian R.
3.	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 Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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.
	Bibliography Citation 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.

4.	Betts, Julian R.
4.	The Impact of School Resources on Women's Earnings and Educational Attainment: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women Working Paper 96/24R, Department of Economics, University of California - San Diego, 1996. Also:http://www.econ.ucsd.edu/~jbetts/pap14.htm Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego Keyword(s): Earnings; Human Capital; Job Tenure; Occupational Choice; Racial Differences; Schooling; Training, Occupational; Wage Differentials; Wage Levels Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The paper measures the impact of high school resources on women's educational attainment and earnings. No link emerges between education and school resources--as 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 weakens as workers grow older. Copyright: This record is part of the Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE) Database, copyright (c) 2001 Cambridge University Press
	Bibliography Citation Betts, Julian R. "The Impact of School Resources on Women's Earnings and Educational Attainment: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women." Working Paper 96/24R, Department of Economics, University of California - San Diego, 1996. Also:http://www.econ.ucsd.edu/~jbetts/pap14.htm.

5.	Betts, Julian R.
5.	The Impact of School Resources on Women's Earnings and Educational Attainment: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women Journal of Labor Economics 19,3 (July 2001): 635-657. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/322076 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Earnings; Educational Attainment; High School; Racial Differences; Wages, Women; Wages, Young Women; Women's Education The article measures the impact of high school resources on women's educational attainment and earnings. No link emerges between education and school resources as 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 weakens as workers grow older. Copyright: University of Chicago, acting through its Press.
	Bibliography Citation Betts, Julian R. "The Impact of School Resources on Women's Earnings and Educational Attainment: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women ." Journal of Labor Economics 19,3 (July 2001): 635-657.

6.	Betts, Julian R.
6.	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 Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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.
	Bibliography Citation 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.

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