Title
School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina
Author(s)
David Card David Card (Princeton University and NBER)
Alan B. Krueger Alan Krueger (Princeton University and NBER)
Abstract
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 black and white students in North and South Carolina that existed in the first half of the 20th century, and the subsequent narrowing of these resource disparities. Following birth cohorts over time, gaps in earnings and educational attainment for blacks and whites in the Carolinas tend to mirror the gaps in school resources.
Creation Date
1996-07
Section URL ID
IRS
Paper Number
366
URL
https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01dz010q05z/1/366.pdf
File Function
Jel
E21, E22, E23
Keyword(s)
education, school resources, education production function
Suppress
false
Series
1