Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107470 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8693
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using administrative data on schools in England, we estimate an education production model of cognitive skills at the end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of self-productivity of skills and of complementarity between secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive ability is 0.221 and the return to school expenditure is three times higher for students at the top of the past attainment distribution than for those at the bottom.
Subjects: 
education production function
test scores
school quality
complementarity
JEL: 
I22
I24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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