Using
Siblings to Estimate the Effect of School Quality on Wages
Joseph G. Altonji and Thomas
A. Dunn
Abstract
In this paper we use the variance across siblings in school characteristics
to estimate the effects of school inputs on wages. The analysis
uses sibling pairs from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor
Market Experience of Young Men and Young Women. We find that teacher's
salary, expenditures per pupil, and a composite index of school
quality indicators have a substantial positive effect on the wages
of high school graduates.
Joseph G. Altonji, Department of Economics,
Northwestern University Thomas A. Dunn, Department of Economics, Syracuse University
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