ATTAINMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL L. FEINSTEIN and J. SYMONS
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This paper studies attainment in secondary schools. We estimate an education production function in which attainment depends upon parental inputs, peer group inputs and schooling inputs. We find that the most powerful parental input is parental interest in children, as assessed by teachers. We find a strong peer group effect. The school pupil-teacher ratio does not enter significantly. The only strongly endogenous variable is initial attainment. We argue that this is due to measurement error. There is some evidence that parental interest is endogenous but we do not find peer group variables to be so. This paper was produced as part of the Centre’s Human Resources Programme ATTAINMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL L. FEINSTEIN and J. SYMONS MARCH 1997 Published by Centre for Economic Performance London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE © L. FEINSTEIN and J. SYMONS
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