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Title: School Resources and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century Georgia

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: The relationship between school resources and students labor market outcomes has been a topic of debate among economists for the last half-century. The relatively recent public release of the 1940 US Census, the first to ask questions regarding income, allows for a closer examination of this relationship. I link children residing in Georgia in 1910 to their responses as adults to the 1940 census and to county-level school revenues collected from the reports of the Georgia Department of Education. Georgia is attractive as a case study since the State School Fund allocation rules provide a plausibly exogenous source of variation in school district revenues. A preliminary analysis, using a sample of three to seven year olds in 1910, suggests that a one standard deviation increase in school revenues received from the state per school-age child during the first three years of schooling reduced weekly wage earnings in 1940 by 1.85 percent for whites.

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Authors: Baker, Richard B.

Publisher: The College of New Jersey

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Topics: Education, Other

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