The evidence underscores the need to shift attention from school attainment to actual learning. While the average … just years in school, to more accurately reflect the economic value of education. …

quality of a state's elementary and secondary schools where school quality is approximated by statewide average … insurmountable. In short; we argue that the Hedonic approach to inferring school quality is totally unproductive. Even so, we include …) interstate differences in wages are not consistent with a simple school quality–wage relation; we cannot assume a simple national …