Appendix to: "How America Graduated from High School, 1910 to 1960", Construction of State-Level Secondary School Data / Claudia Goldin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldin, Claudia.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Historical Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. h0057.

NBER historical working paper series no. h0057

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Appendix to

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1994.

Summary:

A new state-level series on secondary-school data demonstrates that graduation and enrollment rates increased greatly in the 1920s and 1930s in most regions. An 18-year old male in 1910 had just a 10% chance of having a high school diploma but by the mid-1930s the median 18-year old male was a high school graduate. This Appendix describes the procedures used to construct the state-level secondary school enrollment and graduation numbers contained in the NBER Working Paper `How America Graduated from High School: 1910 to 1960.'

Notes:

Print version record

June 1994.