Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand

I: Introduction by the Editors: Ingenuity and Creativity - David Card and Alan B. Krueger
II: School Quality, Earnings, and Black-White Wage Differences
Introduction
1. Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
2. School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment
3. School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina
4. Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions
III: Minimum Wages and Employment Demand
Introduction
5. Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage
6. Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
7. A Re-Analysis of the Effect of the New Jersey
8. Unexpected Inflation, Real Wages, and Employment Determination in Union Contracts
IV: Concluding Thoughts