Does money matter?
Subtitle: the effect of school resources on student achievement and adult success
By: Gary Burtless, editor.
Contributors: Burtless, Gary T., 1950-
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Education -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Education -- United States -- Finance.; Academic achievement -- United States.; Wages -- Effect of education on -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction and summary / Gary Burtless; value: School resources and student performance / Eric A. Hanushek; value: Have times changed? The relation between school resources and student performance / Larry V. Hedges and Rob Greenwald; value: Evidence from fifteen schools in Austin, Texas / Richard J. Murnane and Frank Levy; value: Labor market effects of school quality : theory and evidence / David Card and Alan B. Krueger; value: Is there a link between school inputs and earnings? Fresh scrutiny of an old literature / Julian R. Betts; value: Does measured school quality really matter? An examination of the earnings-quality relationship / James Heckman, Anne Layne-Farrar, and Petra Todd.