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Handbook of the Economics of Education

  • 1st Edition, Volume 1 - October 30, 2006
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Eric A. Hanushek, F. Welch
  • Language: English

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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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Economists: professional researchers, advanced graduate students

Table of contents

1. Post Schooling Wage Growth: Investment, Search and Learning
Yona Rubinstein and Yoram Weiss

2. Long Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the United States
Sandra E. Black and Kenneth L. Sokoloff

3. Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo

4. Immigrants and Their Schooling
James P. Smith

5. Educational Wage Premia and the Distribution o f Earnings: An International Perspective
Franco Peracchi

6. Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Donald R. Deere and Jelena Vesovic

7. Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond
James J. Heckman, Lance J. Lochner and Petra E. Todd

8. The Social Value of Education and Human Capital
Fabian Lange and Robert Topel

9. Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?
Derek Neal

10. Education and Nonmarket Outcomes
Michael Grossman

11. Does Learning to Add Up Add Up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data
Lant Pritchett

12. Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy V. Masterov

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 1
  • Published: October 30, 2006
  • Language: English

About the editors

EH

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

FW

F. Welch

Affiliations and expertise
Texas A & M University, College Stations, TX, USA

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