0468763 - NHU-C 2017 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Bernal, P. - Mittag, Nikolas - Qureshi, J. A.
Estimating effects of school quality using multiple proxies.
Labour Economics. Roč. 39, April (2016), s. 1-10. ISSN 0927-5371. E-ISSN 1879-1034
Institutional support: PRVOUK-P23
Keywords : school quality * education * skill formation
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
Impact factor: 1.036, year: 2016 ; AIS: 1.136, rok: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2016.01.005

The recent literature on school quality has shown that the school a child attends has significant effects on achievement. However, the literature relating different school characteristics to student achievement has produced mixed results, particularly when using student-level data. Using data from the ECLS-K and a proxy variable model that addresses the problem of measuring school quality, we show that significant effects of teaching and resource quality can be detected from student-level data. We find a significant, positive relationship between school quality and student achievement if school characteristics such as class size and teachers' schooling are treated as noisy measures of school quality. However, this effect is not detected when using models which do not account for measurement error in school quality. Our results suggest that conventional approaches underestimate the effect of school quality by about 50%.
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