Handbook of the economics of education. Volume 5
Eric A. Hanushek (Editor), Finis Welch (Editor)
Vol. 3: How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy? Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the determinants of educational outcomes and issues surrounding teacher salaries and licensure. And reflecting government demands for more evidence-based policies, they
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V. 1. Post schooling wage growth : investment, search and learning / Yona Rubinstein and Yoram Weiss
Long-term trends in schooling : the rise and decline of public education in the United States / Sandra E. Black and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Historical perspectives on racial differences in schooling in the United States / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo
Immigrants and their schooling / James P. Smith
Education wage premia and the distribution of earnings : an international perspective / Franco Peracchi
Educational wage premiums and the U.S. income distribution : a survey / Donald R. Deere and Jelena Vesovic
Earnings functions, rates of return and treatment effects : the Mincer equation and beyond / James J. Heckman, Lance J. Lochner and Petra E. Todd
The social value of education and human capital / Fabian Lange and Robert Topel
Why has black-white skill convergence stopped? / Derek Neal
Education and nonmarket outcomes / Michael Grossman
Does learning to add up add up? : the returns to schooling in aggregate data / Lant Pritchett
Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation / Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy V. Masterov
v. 2. Using wages to infer school quality / Robert Speakman and Finis Welch
School resources / Eric A. Hanushek
Drinking from the fountain of knowledge : student incentive to study and learn : externalities, information problems and peer pressure / John Bishop
Schools, teachers, and education outcomes in developing countries / Paul Glewwe and Michael Kremer
Has school desegregation improved academic and economic outcomes for blacks? / Steven Rivkin and Finis Welch
Teacher quality / Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
Teacher supply / Peter J. Dolton
Pre-school, day care, and after school care : who's minding the kids? / David Blau
The courts and public school finance : judge-made centralization and economic research / William A. Fischel
Income and peer quality sorting in public and private schools / Thomas J. Nechyba
Public intervention in post-secondary education / Thomas J. Kane
US higher education finance / Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro
Income contingent loans for higher education : international reforms / Bruce Chapman
v. 3. Econometric methods for research in education / Costas Meghir, Steven Rivkin
The economics of international differences in educational achievement / Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann
Education and family background: mechanisms and policies / Anders Bjorklund, Kjell Salvanes
Peer effects in education: how might they work, how big are they and how much do we know thus far? / Bruce Sacerdote
Teacher compensation and collective bargaining / Michael Podgursky
Licensure: exploring the value of this gateway to the teacher workforce / Dan Goldhaber
The economics of tracking in education / Julian R. Betts
School accountability / David Figlio, Susanna Loeb
The GED / James Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Nicholas Mader
Housing valuations of school performance / Sandra Black, Steven Machin
Apprenticeship / Stefan C. Wolter, Paul Ryan
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