dc.contributor.advisor | Welch, Finis | |
dc.creator | Speakman, Robert B., Jr. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-04-25T20:11:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-04-25T20:11:31Z | |
dc.date.created | 2006-12 | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-04-25 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4883 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the literature that attempts to measure the relationship
between school quality and earnings. I begin by developing a simple economic model
that predicts that, everything else being equal and with comparisons being made within a
market, workers from higher quality schools will have higher earnings among those with
the same level of schooling and they will have steeper schooling-earnings gradients.
The remainder of this dissertation explores problems that exist in this literature for
which no solutions have been presented. These problems include: 1) there doesnâÂÂt have
to be a direct and positive relationship between school quality and earnings; 2) the data
suggest that school quality measures are frequently mismatched to workers; 3) most
school quality studies include college-trained labor while completely ignoring the
quality of the college attended; 4) the omission of college quality from the estimation is
especially problematic for studies that attempt to measure the school quality-earnings
relationship through differences in schooling-earnings gradients for those educated in
different systems; 5) state of birth wage rankings thought to capture a school quality
effect are not invariant to the market (state of residence) in which they are evaluated;
and 6) the evidence presented herein suggests that interstate migration is selective.
These problems undermine the credibility of existing estimates of a school qualityearnings
relationship. | en |
dc.format.extent | 544053 bytes | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
dc.subject | school quality | en |
dc.subject | wages | en |
dc.subject | returns to education | en |
dc.title | School quality and wages | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.department | Economics | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Economics | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Deere, Donald | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Fossett, Mark | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Ureta, Manuelita | |
dc.type.genre | Electronic Dissertation | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | born digital | en |