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Handbook of the Economics of Education SET

  • 1st Edition, Volume 0 - September 26, 2011
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Eric A. Hanushek, Stephen J. Machin, Ludger Woessmann
  • Language: English

This two-volume set answers a pair of important questions. Volume 3 asks "How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?" Its co… Read more

Description

This two-volume set answers a pair of important questions. Volume 3 asks "How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?" Its contributors, with the help of new methodological approaches, cover econometric methods and international test score data and examine the determinants of educational outcomes and issues surrounding teacher salaries and licensure. Reflecting government demands for more evidence-based policies, they take new looks at institutional features of school systems. Volume 4 considers "What is the value of an education?" School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help its contributors make sense of the investments and returns associated with education.

Key features

  • Demonstrates how new methodologies are yielding fresh perspectives in education economics
  • Reveals how education serves as an important determinant of economic and social outcomes
  • Presents topics and authors whose data and conclusions attest to the globalization of research
  • Uses rich data to study issues of high contemporary policy relevance

Readership

Graduate students and professionals working in economics and education worldwide

Table of contents

Volume 3

  • 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

Volume 4

  • The Market for Graduates and the College Premium. Ian Walker
  • Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies. Anders Bjorklund & Kjell Salvanes
  • Immigration and Education. Christian Dustmann
  • The Provision of Incentives for Educators. Derek Neal
  • Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market. Hessel Oosterbeek & Edwin Leuven
  • Non-Production Benefits of Education. Lance Lochner
  • Noncognitive Skills in Economics and Social Life. James Heckman & Angela L. Duckworth
  • School Choice and School Competition. Caroline Hoxby
  • Collegiate Attainment: Supply and Demand in Higher Education. Sarah Turner & John Bound
  • Inequality, Human Capital Formation and Comparative Development. Oded Galor
  • Adult Education/Lifelong Learning; Training. Jeffrey Smith
  • Technology, Scientists, Growth. Paul Romer
  • Political economy. G. Glomm, B. Ravikumar & I. Schiopu
  • International Experience with Choice. Eric Bettinger

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 0
  • Published: September 26, 2011
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Eric A. Hanushek

Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is internationally recognized for his economic analysis of educational issues, and his research has had broad influence on education policy in both developed and developing countries. He received the Yidan Prize for Education Research in 2021. He is the author of numerous widely-cited studies on the effects of class size reduction, school accountability, teacher effectiveness, and other topics. He was the first to research teacher effectiveness by measuring students’ learning gains, which forms the conceptual basis for using value-added measures to evaluate teachers and schools, now a widely adopted practice. His recent book with Ludger Woessmann, The Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth summarizes research establishing the close links between countries’ long-term rates of economic growth and the skill levels of their populations. He has authored or edited twenty-five books along with over 300 articles. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and completed his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [email protected]; http://hanushek.stanford.edu/
Affiliations and expertise
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, CA, USA

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Stephen J. Machin

Stephen J. Machin is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, has been President of the European Association of Labour Economists, is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and was an independent member of the UK Low Pay Commission from 2007-14. He was Chair of the Economics and Econometrics sub-panel of the UK’s 2021 Research Excellence Framework. He has researched and published extensively in various areas of empirical economics and public policy, including labour market inequality, the economics of education, industrial relations, social mobility, and the economics of crime. [email protected]; https://personal.lse.ac.uk/machin/
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Economics, University College London and Director, Centre for the Economics of Education and Research Director, Centre for Economic Performance, UK

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Ludger Woessmann

Ludger Woessmann is the Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education and Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He is also Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Being interested in the determinants of long-term prosperity of mankind, his main research focus is on the economics of education, especially the importance of education for economic prosperity and the effects of school systems on educational achievement and equality of opportunity. He is Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academic Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the International Academy of Education. https://sites.google.com/view/woessmann-e
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Economics, University of Munich and Head, Human Capital and Innovation Department, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Germany