TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grogger,Jeff
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Local Violence, Educational Attainment, and Teacher Pay
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - April 1997; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Violence in and around schools has drawn increasing attention lately from both the public and policy makers.  Despite the importance of the problem, however, research on this topic has been limited.  In this paper I analyze how local violence affects high school graduation, college attendance, and teacher pay.  Using data from the High School and Beyond survey, I find that local violence has important effects.  Moderate levels of violence reduce the likelihood of high school graduation by 5.1 percentage points on average, and lower the likelihood that a student will attend college by 6.9 percentage points.  They also raise teacher salaries by 2.4 percent
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w6003
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w6003
ER  -