Handbook of the economics of education: volume 1

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Title: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1

Contains: Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Contents of Volume 1; Preface; Chapter 1. Post Schooling Wage Growth: Investment, Search and Learning; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Wages and employment over the life cycle - A first glance; 3. Models of wage growth; 4. Basic findings and their interpretation; 5. Data appendix: Data and sample-inclusion criteria; 6. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY); References; Chapter 2. Long-Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the United States; Abstract; Keywords
1. Introduction2. Early history; 3. Public universities; 4. The high school movement; 5. Challenges and responses in the late 20th century; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic statistics; 3. Race and the returns to schooling: Historical evidence; 4. A model of educational attainment; 5. Applying the model: An analytic narrative; 6. Conclusions and suggestions for further research; Acknowledgements; Appendix; References; Chapter 4. Immigrants and Their Schooling
AbstractKeywords; Introduction; 1. Schooling of migrants and the native-born; 2. The changing education gap of immigrants; 3. The educational diversity of migrants - legal and unauthorized immigrants; 4. Foreign students at American schools; 5. Immigrant education and generational assimilation; Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 5. Educational Wage Premia and the Distribution of Earnings: An International Perspective; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction and summary; 2. Measurement and statistical issues; 3. Educational attainments; 4. Wage premia: Empirical evidence
5. Education and the distribution of personal earningsAcknowledgements; References; Chapter 6. Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Educational wage premiums and the income distribution - early approaches; 3. The human capital revolution; 4. Increases in the return to human capital and the wage structure; 5. Trends in education-wage premiums and the relationship to enrollment; 6. Differences in enrollment, characteristics and earnings; 7. Concluding remarks; Appendix; References
Chapter 7. Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and BeyondAbstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. The theoretical foundations of Mincer's earnings regression; 3. Empirical evidence on the Mincer model; 4. Estimating internal rates of return; 5. The internal rate of return and the sequential resolution of uncertainty; 6. How do cross-sectional IRR estimates compare with cohort-based estimates?; 7. Accounting for the endogeneity of schooling; 8. Accounting systematically for heterogeneity in returns to schooling: What does IV estimate?
9. Estimating distributions of returns to schooling
Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Contents of Volume 2; Preface; Chapter 13. Using Wages to Infer School Quality; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; Part I. Problems; Part II. A summary of studies examining the effect of school quality on earnings; References; Chapter 14. School Resources; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; 1. Overview and motivation; 2. Measurement of outcomes; 3. Aggregate United States performance; 4. Aggregate international data; 5. Econometric approach; 6. United States econometric evidence
7. International econometric evidence8. Project STAR and experimental data; 9. Interpreting the resource evidence; 10. Implications for research; References; Chapter 15. Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn - Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Student effort influences learning; 2. A model of student learning; 3. The effects of better signaling of academic achievement; 4. Setting higher standards for course grades and promotion to the next grade; 5. Peer norms about studying and academic engagement; References
Chapter 16. Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing CountriesAbstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Education in developing countries; 3. Methodological issues; 4. Factors influencing the quantity of education attained; 5. Empirical results on quality: Factors affecting skills obtained in school; 6. Education systems, the political economy of education, and reform initiatives; 7. Conclusions and directions for future research; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 17. Has School Desegregation Improved Academic and Economic Outcomes for Blacks?; Abstract; Keywords
1. Landmark court cases2. School desegregation techniques; 3. Trends in school enrollment patterns: 1968-2000; 4. Desegregation and residential shifts; 5. Racial composition and desegregation program outcome effects; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 18. Teacher Quality; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; 1. Aggregate salary trends; 2. Distribution of teachers; 3. Teacher characteristics and student achievement; 4. Outcome-based measures of quality; 5. Markets for teacher quality; 6. Policy connections; 7. Research agenda; 8. Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References
Chapter 19. Teacher SupplyAbstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Empirical evidence on teacher supply and salaries; 3. Modeling teacher supply; 4. The determinants of teacher recruitment, turnover, retention, mobility and re-entry; 5. Future research; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 20. Pre-School, Day Care, and After-School Care: Who's Minding the Kids?; Abstract; Keywords; 1. Introduction; 2. Who is minding the kids?; 3. The market for child care; 4. Government intervention in the child care market; 5. Publicly provided child care; 6. Unanswered questions
Acknowledgements
v. 1. Post schooling wage growth : investment, search and learning / Yona Rubinstein and Yoram WeissLong-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.

Contributor: Hanushek, Eric Alan [Other]; Welch, Finis [Other]

imprint: Amsterdam; Boston: North-Holland, 2006

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (817 pages)

Language: English

ISBN: 9780080465661; 0080465668; 9780080465678; 0080465676; 044451399X; 9780444513991

RVK notation: QX 800 : Allgemeines

Keywords: Ausbildung > Lohn > Bildungsökonomie

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Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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

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