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Family Background, Secondary School Expenditure, and Student Ability

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Data on a large sample of high school seniors are used to estimate the relationship between ability test scores and various dimensions of educational input. The inputs examined include measures of each student's family background, the background of other students at the high school attended, and components of expenditure per student at the high school attended. The results suggest that: (1) a number of components of educational expenditure are significantly related to ability test scores, (2) both school integration and compensatory education are capable of altering the relation between ability and family background, and (3) school integration by family income level raises the ability test performance of low-income students while lowering that of high-income students by an equivalent or greater amount.

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  • Lewis J. Perl, 1973. "Family Background, Secondary School Expenditure, and Student Ability," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 8(2), pages 156-180.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:8:y:1973:i:2:p:156-180
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    1. De Fraja, Gianni & Martínez-Mora, Francisco, 2014. "The desegregating effect of school tracking," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 164-177.
    2. Christian E. Weller, 2011. "What Does the Literature Tell Us About the Possible Effect of Changing Retirement Benefits on Public Employee Effectiveness?," Working Papers wp270, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
    3. Donald Andrews & Bichaka Fayissa & Uday Tate, 1991. "An estimation of the aggregate educational production function for public schools in Louisiana," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 20(1), pages 25-47, September.

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