Catholic secondary schooling on high-school graduation rates and also examines Catholic schooling's effect on college … States. These measures of access provide potential instruments for Catholic school attendance. The results indicate that …

The study presented here uses data from the NORC General Social Surveys to explore the effects of measurable school …, usually associated with research on the influence of school inputs on earnings. Earnings studies have tended to find … importance of aggregation and cohort effects in modeling the relationship between school inputs and student outcomes. The level …

This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … educational attainment. In addition, new evidence is presented on the impact of the great disparity in school resources between … blacks and whites in the Carolinas tend to mirror the gaps in school resources …

This paper contributes to what is known about the impact of school quality, by documenting its effect on the incomes of … Black South Africans, using data from the 1996 South African census and two national surveys of school quality. South Africa … provides an interesting laboratory for studying the impact of school quality on labor market outcomes. Under the Apartheid …

, ignoring quality differences. This focus contrasts sharply with policy considerations that almost exclusively consider school … quality issues. This paper presents basic evidence about the impact of school quality on individual earnings and on economic … considers alternative school reform policies focused on improvements in teacher quality, identifying how much change is required …

individuals go to school and accumulate skill valued in a perfectly competitive labor market. To this it adds one ingredient …: school reputation in the spirit of Holmstrom (1982). The first result is that if schools cannot select students based upon …

This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until … a specified birthday, induce a relationship between the years of schooling and age at school entry. Variation in school … start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … with varying school quality. A key insight of the model is that changes in school quality may affect the characteristics of … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …