Publication: Journal of Economic Education
Volume: Volume 16, No. 4
Issue: Fall 1985
Pages: pp. 281-285
Author(s): Michael Watts
Title: School District Inputs and Biased Estimation of Educational Production Functions
Abstract: This study offers some highly tentative statistical evidence on a potential problem, noted by Eric Hanushek in 1979, in estimating educational production functions, particularly at the precollege level. Hanushek observed that it is frequently inappropriate to include school-system variables in equations using the individual student as the unit of observation. This study offers limited evidence supporting this concern.