High School Inputs and Labor Market Outcomes for Male Workers in Their Mid-Thirties: New Data and New Estimates from Wisconsin

This study presents new evidence on the relationship between high school inputs measured at thetime male respondents attended high school and the earnings of these same individuals when they were intheir mid-thirties. To accomplish this task, we matched newly coded data on the characteristics ofWisconsin high schools in 1954--57 to the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey. Our estimates show asignificant relationship between the characteristics of teachers and the earnings of their students 17...