While there are many great research articles, good books, and provocative policy analyses related to the economics of education, these materials are often written to influence the policy process and not necessarily for students with limited knowledge of the underlying policies and the economic framework. This textbook is intended to serve as a foundation for a broad-based course on the economics of education. Its goal is to provide an overview of economics of education research: to lay out the evidence as clearly as possible, note agreements, disagreements, and unresolved points in literature, and to help students develop the tools necessary to draw their own conclusions.
This new edition revises the original 50 authoritative articles and adds Developed (US and European) and Developing Country perspectives, reflecting the differences in institutional structures that help to shape teacher labor markets and ...
Thus, the aim of this handbook is to provide readers with an up-to-date overview of the current state of the field of the economics of education and its main areas of research.
This book is a survey of the principal aspects of the economics of education, such as the demand for education as consumption and as an investment, good education and economic growth, education and manpower needs, and the finance of ...
'...up-to-date, comprehensive, clear, & very readable...a very worthwhile text...' Higher Education, 1992 '...essential reading for students & at the same time an extremely useful work for professionals...an excellent collection ofpapers...
Features: This work of 2 volumes (in both print and electronic formats) contains 300-350 signed entries by significant figures in the field.
School Access In 1994, almost no classrooms in the United States had Internet access, regardless of poverty level. ... sample sizes (hundreds of thousands of students) that access to home computers can actually reduce test scores, ...
Economic Education in the Schools: A Report
Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms: Essays in Honor of Aage B. Sorensen. Amsterdam: Elsevier, chap. 7. 2004c. Income Mobility, Human Capital and Fertility. Mimeo, Pompeu Fabra University. Eurostat 2000.
The Economics of Education
The book also provides an interesting applied perspective from which to study a selection of advanced topics in economic theory, including overlapping generations models, auctions theory, rank order tournaments and principal agent problems.