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Title: School resources and labor market outcomes: Evidence from early twentieth-century Georgia

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2019

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ISSN: 02727757

DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.03.001

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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 release of the 1940 United States census, the first to ask questions regarding income, allows for a closer examination of this relationship for those born in the early twentieth century. I link children residing in Georgia in 1910 to their responses as adults to the 1940 census and to district-level measures of school revenues. Georgia is attractive as a case study since State School Fund allocation rules provide a plausibly exogenous source of variation in school district revenues. The results suggest that a 10 percentage point increase in school revenues for the first three years of an individual's schooling increases educational attainment by more than a third of a year and weekly wage earnings in adulthood by 7.14% (e 0.0069×10 −1) on average for whites.

Url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775718305247

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Authors: Baker, Richard B.

Periodical (Full): Economics of Education Review

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Volume: 70

Pages: 35-47

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Topics: Education, Other

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