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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Handbook of the economics of education
:
volume 4
Contains:
Chapter 1: Personality Psychology and EconomicsChapter 2: Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship -- Chapter 3: Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market -- Chapter 4: Migration and Education -- Chapter 5: Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development -- Chapter 6: The Design of Performance Pay in Education -- Chapter 7: Educational Vouchers in International Contexts -- Chapter 8: Dropouts and Diplomas: The Divergence in Collegiate Outcomes -- Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Education Funding.
Footnote:
Includes index. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make sense of the investments and returns associated with education. Volume editors Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), Stephen Machin (University College London) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich) draw clear lines between newly emerging research on the economics of education and prior work