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 outcomes in urban school systems.
• Investigate the effects of early school investments on Labor Markets outcomes.
• Replicate econometric models from the associated study on urban school system investments.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed, forthcoming article in The Journal of Economic History.
• Dataset was last updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• The dataset's structure, including column names and row count, is unknown.
• The specific temporal and geographic coverage of the data is not provided.

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Replication package for a scholarly article.

Freshness

2026-02-23

Geography

United States (urban areas)