Handbook of the Economics of Education: 1 (Handbooks in Economics) (Hardcover)
by Erik A. Hanushek (Editor), F. Welch (Editor)
Hardcover:865 pages Publisher: North Holland (30 Oct 2006) Language English Product Description
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement.
With contributions from leading researchers, each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of the current state of the topic under examination. These surveys summarize the most recent discussions in journals, and elucidate new developments.
Although original material is also included, the main aim of this series is the provision of comprehensive and accessible surveys.
*Every volume contains contributions from leading researchers
*Each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of a particular topic
*The series provides comprehensive and accessible surveys VOLUME 1
Introduction to the Series
Contents of the Handbook
Preface
Chapter 1
Post Schooling Wage Growth: Investment, Search and Learning
Yona Rubinstein and Yoram Weiss
Chapter 2
Long-Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the
United States
Sandra E. Black and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Chapter 3
Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo
Chapter 4
Immigrants and Their Schooling
James P. Smith
Chapter 5
Educational Wage Premia and the Distribution of Earnings: An International Perspective
Franco Peracchi
Chapter 6
Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Donald R. Deere and Jelena Vesovic
Chapter 7
Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and
Beyond
James J. Heckman, Lance J. Lochner and Petra E. Todd
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Chapter 8
The Social Value of Education and Human Capital
Fabian Lange and Robert Topel
Chapter 9
Why Has Black–White Skill Convergence Stopped?
Derek Neal
Chapter 10
Education and Nonmarket Outcomes
Michael Grossman
Chapter 11
Does Learning to Add up Add up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data
Lant Pritchett
Chapter 12
Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy V. Masterov
Author Index
Subject Index
VOLUME 2
Introduction to the Series
Contents of the Handbook
Preface
Chapter 13
Using Wages to Infer School Quality
Robert Speakman and Finis Welch
Chapter 14
School Resources
Eric A. Hanushek
Chapter 15
Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn –
Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
John Bishop
Chapter 16
Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries
Paul Glewwe and Michael Kremer
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Chapter 17
Has School Desegregation Improved Academic and Economic Outcomes for Blacks?
Steven Rivkin and Finis Welch
Chapter 18
Teacher Quality
Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
Chapter 19
Teacher Supply
Peter J. Dolton
Chapter 20
Pre-School, Day Care, and After School Care: Who’s Minding the Kids?
David Blau
Chapter 21
The Courts and Public School Finance: Judge-Made Centralization and Economic Research
William A. Fischel
Chapter 22
Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools
Thomas J. Nechyba
Chapter 23
Public Intervention in Post-Secondary Education
Thomas J. Kane
Chapter 24
US Higher Education Finance
Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro
Chapter 25
Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: International Reforms
Bruce Chapman
Author Index
Subject Index