Handbook of the economics of education /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hanushek, Eric A. (Eric Alan), 1943-, Welch, Finis, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; London : North-Holland, [2006]
Series:Handbooks in economics ; 26.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.