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School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings : A Direct Assessment
Card, David; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
The average wage differential between black and white men fell from 40 percent in 1960 to 25 percent in 1980. Much of this convergence is attributable to a relative increase in the rate of return to schooling among black workers. It is widely argued that the growth in the relative return to...
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Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions
Krueger, Alan B. - 2022
This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers … were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86 school year: small classes (13-17 students …), regular-size classes (22-25 students) teacher's aide. According to the original design, students were to remain in their …
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