期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN：0804-6824
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：Bergen
摘要：Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the
effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort
themselves non-randomly into school districts and school districts allocate money based in order to
compensate (or reinforce) differences in child abilities, which leaves estimates of school input effects likely to
be biased. Using variation in education expenditures induced by the location of natural resources in Norway,
we examine the effect of school resources on pupil outcomes. We find that higher school expenditures,
triggered by higher revenues from local taxes on hydropower plants, have a significantly positive effect on
pupil performance at age 16. The IV estimates contrast with the standard cross-sectional estimates that reveal
no effects of extra resources.
