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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
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

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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.
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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.