The Effects of School and Family Characteristics on the Return to Education

Joseph Altonji and Thomas A. Dunn

No 5072, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience of Young Men and Young Women. We also use the variance across siblings in school characteristics to estimate the effects of school inputs on wages holding family background constant. We obtained mixed evidence on whether parental education raises the return to education. We find that teacher's salary, expenditures per pupil, and a composite index of school quality measures have a substantial positive effect on the wages of high school graduates.

JEL-codes: I20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995-03
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Published as "The Demand For and Return to Education When Education Outcomes are Uncertain", Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 11, no. 1 (1993): 48-83.
Published as "The Effects of High School Curriculum on Education and Labor Market Outcomes", JHR, Vol. 30, no. 3 (1995): 409-438.
Published as "Effects of Personal and School Characteristics on Estimates of the Return to Education", Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Vol. 22, no. 1, First Quarter (1998): 65-79.

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