Volume 10, Number 2 (Spring) 1975
Edwards, Linda Nasif. 1975. "The Economics of Schooling Decisions: Teenage Enrollment Rates." Journal of Human Resources 10(2):155-173.
A model of teenage schooling decisions is developed and estimated using 1960 Census data for states. The model successfully explains variations in enrollment rates of white teenagers but not of nonwhite teenagers. In addition, school expenditures per pupil are found to have a substantial positive effect not only on the level of teenage enrollment rates in 1960, but also on the increase in their enrollment rates over the 1960 to 1970 decade.
The author is an Assistant Professor at Queens College of the City University of New York. This paper is a revision of part of my doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. It has benefited from numerous suggestions made by Jacob Mincer, Barry Chiswick, Franklin Edwards, William Landes, Mark Rosenzweig, and an anonymous referee, and from discussion with Robert Willis and Richard Morgenstern. Any remaining errors are my own. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Econometric Society meetings in December 1971.
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