Handbook of the Economics of Education
- 1st Edition, Volume 7 - October 26, 2023
- Editors: Stephen J. Machin, Ludger Woessmann, Eric A. Hanushek
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 7 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 7 7 - 3
Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume Seven describes the research frontier in key topical areas and sets the agenda for further work. Sections in this new release i… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHandbook of the Economics of Education, Volume Seven describes the research frontier in key topical areas and sets the agenda for further work. Sections in this new release include Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation and Training, U.S. School Finance: Resources and Outcomes, College Costs, Financial Aid, and Student Decisions, Firm Training, Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure, and more.
By bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, this volume provides a unique view of scholarship in the area. The international perspectives of the editors – Hanushek at Stanford, Machin at LSE, and Woessmann at Munich – leads to a volume with something for all researchers. Topics range from the economics of early childhood education to inequality in society to cash transfers in developing countries.
- Identifies and evaluates the state-of-the-art
- Includes clear descriptions of the meaning of existing research and the most likely avenues for the future
- Provides insights into how policy interventions in education can help or hurt human capital outcomes
Anybody concerned with education research and human capital policy can quickly and definitively know what is known and gain insights into what is next. Researchers, graduate students, and users of research can all benefit from the clear and lucid discussions
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Introduction to the series
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Methods for measuring school effectiveness
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 School lottery basics
- 3 Lottery IV: Implementation details and extensions
- 4 Centralized assignment
- 5 VAM for individual schools
- 6 Conclusion: What next for school quality measurement?
- References
- Chapter 2 Teacher evaluation and training
- Abstract
- 1 Performance measures
- 2 Performance incentives and effort
- 3 Evaluation and selection
- 4 Evaluation and skill development
- 5 Formal training
- 6 Informal training, learning on the job
- 7 Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 3 US school finance: Resources and outcomes
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Attendance, finance, and outcomes
- 3 Special role of courts
- 4 Resources and outcomes (historical studies)
- 5 Resources and outcomes (contemporary studies)
- 6 Some open questions
- 7 Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 4 College costs, financial aid, and student decisions
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background on the landscape of financial aid
- 3 Empirical evidence on the impacts of college costs and student aid
- 4 Lessons from the literature
- 5 Conclusions and directions for future research
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 5 Firm training
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Typologies of training
- 3 Measuring firm training
- 4 Evidence on the nature, extent, and determinants of firm training
- 5 Theories and evidence
- 6 Policy
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6 Multidimensional human capital and the wage structure
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The canonical model
- 3 The task framework
- 4 Varieties of human capital
- 5 Human capital vintages
- 6 Valuation of human capital—Rent sharing and the law of one price
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 1000
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 7
- Published: October 26, 2023
- Imprint: North Holland
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443132766
- eBook ISBN: 9780443132773
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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, UKLW
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, GermanyEH
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, USARead Handbook of the Economics of Education on ScienceDirect