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Title: Do School Resources Matter Only For Older Workers?
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1. Betts, Julian R.
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

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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)
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Betts, Julian R. "Do School Resources Matter Only For Older Workers?" Review of Economics and Statistics 78,4 (November 1996): 638-652.