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The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 78 No. 4 1996

Using Siblings to Estimate the Effect of School Quality on Wages

Joseph G. Altonji; 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.

DOI
10.2307/2109953
Volume
78
Issue
4
Pages
665
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