Arbeitspapier

School inputs and skills: Complementarity and self-productivity

Using administrative data on schools in England, we estimate an education production model of cognitive skills at the end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of selfproductivity of skills and of complementarity between secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive ability is 0.22 and the return to school expenditure is three times higher for students at the top of the past attainment distribution than for those at the bottom.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2013-28

Classification
Wirtschaft
Educational Finance; Financial Aid
Education and Inequality
Subject
Education production function
test scores
school quality
complementarity

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Nicoletti, Cheti
Rabe, Birgitta
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(where)
Colchester
(when)
2013

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Nicoletti, Cheti
  • Rabe, Birgitta
  • University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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