Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I EDUCATION AND EARNINGS: EVIDENCE FROM COMPULSORY SCHOOLING AND TWINS

`Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Joshua D. Angrist, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106 (4), November 1991, 979-1014

`The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment: An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples', Joshua D. Angrist, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87 (418), June 1992, 328-36

`Split-Sample Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Return to Schooling', Joshua D. Angrist, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 13 (2), April 1995, 225-35

`Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins', Orley Ashenfelter, American Economic Review, 84 (5), December 1994, 1157-73

`Measuring Labor's Share', American Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 89 (2), May 1999, 45-51

PART II ESTIMATING THE PAYOFF TO SCHOOL QUALITY

`School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina', David Card, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10 (4), Fall 1996, 31-50

`Labor Market Effects of School Quality: Theory and Evidence', David Card, in Gary Burtless (ed.), Does Money Matter? The Link Between Schools, Student Achievement and Adult Success, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996, pp. 97-140

`Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States', David Card, Journal of Political Economy, 100 (1), 1992, 1-40

`Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114 (2), May 1999, 497-532

PART III RACE AND SCHOOLING

`School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment', David Card, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107 (1), February 1992, 151-200

`Race and School Quality since Brown v. Board of Education', Michael Boozer and Shari Wolkon, in Brookings Papers on Economics Activity: Microeconomics, Martin N. Baily and Clifford Winston (eds), 1992, pp. 269-326, 336-8

PART IV CHANGES IN THE ECONOMIC REWARDS TO EDUCATION

`Changes in the Structure of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors', Lawrence Katz, in Ronald Ehrenberg (ed.), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 12, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc., 1991, pp. 137-72

`How Computers have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Microdata, 1984-1989', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108 (1), February 1993, 33-60

PART V EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

`Education for Growth in Sweden and World', Mikael Lindahl, Swedish Economic Policy Review, Autumn 1999, 6 (2), 291-339

PART VI EVALUATING SCHOOLS

`Reassessing the View that American Schools are Broken', Economic Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 4 (1), March 1998, 29-43

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