Does School Quality Matter? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
利用全国青年纵向调查数据，发现工人收入与所上高中有关，但传统学校质量指标（如班级规模、教师薪资）无法解释这种差异，与Card和Krueger的研究形成对比。
The paper searches for links between school quaity and subsequent earnings of students. Using data for white males from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the paper rejects the hypothesis that workers' earnings are independent of which high school they attended. However, traditional measures of school 'quality' such as class size, teachers' salaries and teachers' level of education fail to capture these differences. This result is robust to changes in specification and subsample. The paper contrasts the results with those of D. Card and A. B. Krueger (1992) and speculates that structural changes may have weakened the link between traditional measures of school quality and student outcomes. Copyright 1995 by MIT Press.