Early Investments in United States Urban School Systems

The replication package for a forthcoming Journal of Economic History article by Ethan Schmick and Allison Shertzer. It supports research on the impact of early investments in urban school systems in the United States.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between Education Expenditures and long-term Labor Markets outcomes in urban areas.
• Replicate econometric models from the associated study to validate findings on school system investments.
• Conduct historical policy analysis on urban education funding using the provided archival data.

Strengths

• Archival version curated for replication of a peer-reviewed, forthcoming academic study.
• Data is associated with research on a specific policy domain: early investments in urban school systems.

Limitations

• The dataset's structure, including column names, row count, and file formats, is unknown.
• The temporal and geographic coverage of the underlying data is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Replication package for an academic article.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

United States urban areas.