The impact of school resources on women's earnings and educational attainment: Findings from the national longitudinal survey of young women

The article measures the impact of high school resources on women's educati onal attainment and earnings. No link emerges between education and school resources-as measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, spending per pupil, teach ers' starting salaries, or books per student. For white women, no significa nt connection between school resources and wages is found. But school input s are in several cases significantly and positively related to black women' s wages. Wage elasticities with respect to school inputs are uniformly larg er for black women. Finally, the impact of school resources on earnings rem ains constant or in some cases weakens as workers grow older.