Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2008

Edited by E. Cohn

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Volume 27, issue 4, 2008

A time allocation study of university faculty pp. 363-374

Albert N. Link, Christopher A. Swann and Barry Bozeman

Double your major, double your return? pp. 375-386

Alison F. Del Rossi and Joni Hersch

Bullying, education and earnings: Evidence from the National Child Development Study pp. 387-401

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

Demand (and supply) in an inter-district public school choice program pp. 402-416

Randall Reback

Management by results: Student evaluation of faculty teaching and the mis-measurement of performance pp. 417-428

Laura Langbein

Does school choice increase the rate of youth entrepreneurship? pp. 429-438

Russell S. Sobel and Kerry A. King

Social capital and student learning: Empirical results from Latin American primary schools pp. 439-449

Joan B. Anderson

Costs of attendance and the educational programs of first-time community college students pp. 450-459

Andrew W. Nutting

Are measured school effects just sorting?: Causality and correlation in the National Education Longitudinal Survey pp. 460-470

David . Levine and Gary Painter

The cost structure of higher education in further education colleges in England pp. 471-482

Pamela Lenton

Volume 27, issue 3, 2008

Performance pay for teachers: Determinants and consequences pp. 243-252

Clive R. Belfield and John S. Heywood

Where class size really matters: Class size and student ratings of instructor effectiveness pp. 253-265

Kelly Bedard and Peter Kuhn

Three measures of returns to education: An illustration for the case of Spain pp. 266-275

Arrazola, María and de Hevia, José

Effects of decentralization on school resources pp. 276-284

Ahlin, Åsa and Mörk, Eva

Efficiency, technology and productivity change in Australian universities, 1998-2003 pp. 285-298

Andrew C. Worthington and Boon L. Lee

The role of education in health system performance pp. 299-307

Michel Grignon

Unequal education, poverty and low growth--A theoretical framework for rural education of China pp. 308-318

Fangwei Wu, Deyuan Zhang and Jinghua Zhang

A multinomial logit model of college stopout and dropout behavior pp. 319-331

Leslie Sundt Stratton, O'Toole, Dennis M. and James N. Wetzel

Education, educational mismatch, and wage inequality: Evidence for Spain pp. 332-341

Budría, Santiago and Moro-Egido, Ana I.

Language, high school leadership and the postsecondary outcomes of Hispanic students pp. 342-353

Fernando A. Lozano

Birth order and participation in school sports and other extracurricular activities pp. 354-362

Daniel . Rees, Elizabeth Lopez, Susan L. Averett and Laura M. Argys

Volume 27, issue 2, 2008

The effects of over-education on earnings in the graduate labour market pp. 125-139

Peter J. Dolton and Mary A. Silles

School attendance and district and school size pp. 140-148

John T. Jones, Eugenia F. Toma and Ron W. Zimmer

Estimating returns to education using different natural experiment techniques pp. 149-160

Andrew Leigh and Chris Ryan

In sickness and in health--Till education do us part: Education effects on hospitalization pp. 161-172

Jacob Nielsen Arendt

What makes a leader? Relative age and high school leadership pp. 173-183

Elizabeth Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb

The causal effect of graduating from a top university on promotion: Evidence from the University of Tokyo's 1969 admission freeze pp. 184-196

Daiji Kawaguchi and Wenjie Ma

Who goes to graduate/professional school? The importance of economic fluctuations, undergraduate field, and ability pp. 197-210

Kelly Bedard and Douglas A. Herman

Gains in standardized test scores: Evidence of diminishing returns to achievement pp. 211-220

Donna Driscoll, Dennis Halcoussis and Shirley Svorny

The effects of class size on student grades at a public university pp. 221-233

Edward C. Kokkelenberg, Michael Dillon and Sean M. Christy

Benefits of bilingualism: Evidence from Mormon missionaries pp. 234-242

Devin G. Pope

Volume 27, issue 1, 2008

Educational attainment and HIV/AIDS prevalence: A cross-country study pp. 14-21

Manisha Lakhanpal and Rati Ram

How schools and students respond to school improvement programs: The case of Brazil's PDE pp. 22-38

Martin Carnoy, Amber K. Gove, Susanna Loeb, Jeffery H. Marshall and Miguel Socias

Perceived rates of return to higher education: Further evidence from Cyprus pp. 39-47

Maria Eliophotou Menon

Comparing teacher salaries: Insights from the U.S. census pp. 48-57

Lori L. Taylor

Strategic responses to school accountability measures: It's all in the timing pp. 58-68

David P. Sims

Teens' alcohol consumption and schooling pp. 69-78

Francesco Renna

Field of study choice by community college students in Canada pp. 79-93

Brahim Boudarbat

Education and Italian regional development pp. 94-107

Adriana Di Liberto

List of Editorial Referees pp. 108-110

Elchanan Cohn

Volume 26, issue 6, 2007

In memoriam: Jean-Claude Eicher pp. 643-644

Benoit Millot

Introduction to the special issue in memory of Jean-Claude Eicher: The Second Dijon Conference pp. 645-647

Benoit Millot

Student achievement conditioned upon school selection: Religious and secular secondary school quality in Bangladesh pp. 648-659

Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury and Amit Dar

Do teachers' wages matter for proficiency? Evidence from a funding reform in Brazil pp. 660-672

Menezes-Filho, Naercio and Elaine Pazello

Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects pp. 673-682

Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

The determinants and impact of private tutoring classes in Vietnam pp. 683-698

Hai-Anh H. Dang

The public returns to public educational investments in African-American males pp. 699-708

Henry M. Levin, Clive Belfield, Peter Muennig and Cecilia Rouse

What does it take to achieve equality of opportunity in education?: An empirical investigation based on Brazilian data pp. 709-723

Fábio Domingues Waltenberg and Vincent Vandenberghe

Family background, financial constraints and higher education attendance in China pp. 724-734

Wenli Li

Distributional effects of educational improvements: Are we using the wrong model? pp. 735-746

Francois Bourguignon and F. Halsey Rogers

Aspiration levels and educational choices: An experimental study pp. 747-757

Lionel Page, Louis Levy Garboua and Claude Montmarquette

Schools, skills and risk pp. 758-770

Joop Hartog and Wim Vijverberg

The effects of education quality on income growth and mortality decline pp. 771-788

Eliot A. Jamison, Dean Jamison and Eric Hanushek

Volume 26, issue 5, 2007

Overeducation in the graduate labour market: A quantile regression approach pp. 521-531

Seamus Mcguinness and Jessica Bennett

From districts to schools: The distribution of resources across schools in big city school districts pp. 532-545

Ross Rubenstein, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel and Hella Bel Hadj Amor

The economic impact of colleges and universities pp. 546-558

John J. Siegfried, Allen R. Sanderson and Peter McHenry

Evidence on the returns to secondary vocational education pp. 559-573

Jonathan Meer

Minimum wage effects on educational enrollments in New Zealand pp. 574-587

Gail A. Pacheco and Amy A. Cruickshank

Positive outcomes from poor starts: Predictors of dropping back in pp. 588-603

Laura E. Hill and Christopher Jepsen

The influence of childhood maltreatment on adolescents' academic performance pp. 604-614

Eric P. Slade and Lawrence S. Wissow

Do school teacher parents make a difference? pp. 615-628

Isaac McFarlin

Schooling and test scores: A mother-natural experiment pp. 629-640

Dave E. Marcotte

Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More, Derek Bok. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford (2006). ($29.95), ISBN:978-0-691-12596-1 pp. 641-642

W. Patrick Leonard

Volume 26, issue 4, 2007

Education and job match: The relatedness of college major and work pp. 397-407

John Robst

Wage effects of an extra year of basic vocational education pp. 408-419

Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink

Immigrant overeducation: Evidence from recent arrivals to Australia pp. 420-432

Colin P. Green, Parvinder Kler and Gareth David Leeves

Quality, tuition, and applications to in-state public colleges pp. 433-449

DeForest McDuff

The role of high school performance in explaining women's rising college enrollment pp. 450-462

Donghun Cho

Secondary school extracurricular involvement and academic achievement: a fixed effects approach pp. 463-472

Stephen Lipscomb

Does performance related pay for teachers improve student performance? Some evidence from India pp. 473-486

Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and Francis John Teal

Educational production and teacher preferences pp. 487-500

Ryan Bosworth and Frank Caliendo

Parental choice and school quality when peer and scale effects matter pp. 501-515

O'Shaughnessy, Terry

Research note: Athletic graduation rates and Simpson's Paradox pp. 516-520

Victor Matheson

Volume 26, issue 3, 2007

Does examination hell pay off ? A cost-benefit analysis of "ronin" and college education in Japan pp. 271-284

Hiroshi Ono

For whom the Pell tolls: The response of university tuition to federal grants-in-aid pp. 285-295

Larry Singell and Joe A. Stone

The influence of financial aid in leveling group differences in graduating from elite institutions pp. 296-311

Sigal Alon

Teacher qualifications and early learning: Effects of certification, degree, and experience on first-grade student achievement pp. 312-324

Robert G. Croninger, Jennifer King Rice, Amy Rathbun and Masako Nishio

Understanding the level and causes of teacher turnover: A comparison with other professions pp. 325-337

Douglas N. Harris and Scott Adams

Public versus private university presidents pay levels and structure pp. 338-348

James Monks

Language skills and earnings: Evidence from a pre-industrial economy in the Bolivian Amazon pp. 349-360

Ricardo Godoy, Reyes-Garcia, Victoria, Craig Seyfried, Tomas Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner and Vincent Vadez

Academic performance, childhood economic resources, and the choice to leave school at age 16 pp. 361-374

Sholeh A. Maani and Guyonne Kalb

Using conjoint analysis to estimate employers preferences for key competencies of master level Dutch graduates entering the public health field pp. 375-386

R.G. Biesma, M. Pavlova, G.G. van Merode and W. Groot

A theoretical assessment of regional development effects on the demand for general education pp. 387-394

Roki Iwahashi

Erratum to: "Comparative benefit-cost analysis of the Abecedarian program and its policy implications": [Econ. Educ. Rev. 26 (2007) 113-125] pp. 395-396

W. Steven Barnett and Leonard N. Masse

Volume 26, issue 2, 2007

Race, poverty, and teacher mobility pp. 145-159

Benjamin Scafidi, David L. Sjoquist and Todd R. Stinebrickner

A descriptive analysis of the distribution of NBPTS-certified teachers in North Carolina pp. 160-172

Dan Goldhaber, Choi, Hyung-Jai and Lauren Cramer

On the use of student data in efficiency analysis--Technical efficiency in Swedish upper secondary school pp. 173-185

Staffan Waldo

The health effects of education pp. 186-200

Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Grades as information pp. 201-214

Darren Grant

Are successive investments in education equally worthwhile? Endogenous schooling decisions and non-linearities in the earnings-schooling relationship pp. 215-231

Ali Skalli

Monetizing college reputation: The case of Taiwan's engineering and medical schools pp. 232-243

Tao, Hung-Lin

The influence of the US News and World Report collegiate rankings on the matriculation decision of high-ability students: 1995-2004 pp. 244-255

Amanda Griffith and Kevin Rask

Rachel Connelly, Deborah S. DeGraff, Rachel A.Willis. Kids at Work: The Value of Employer-Sponsored On-site Child Care Centers. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI (2004), ISBN 0-88099-304-9 (175pp, $16.00, Paper) pp. 257-258

David Ribar

Clive R. Belfield and M. Levin Henry, Editors, Privatizing educational choices: Consequences for parents, schools and public policy, Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, London (2005) ix-225pp pp. 259-260

G. Glomm

Sara McLanahan (Eds.), School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps; A special issue of the journal The Future of Children, Princeton University and Brookings Institution, Princeton, NJ, ISBN: 0-8157-5559-7, 2005 ($40.00, 2005, 196pp.) pp. 261-262

Douglas N. Harris

The Political Economy of Education: Implications for Growth and Inequality. M. Gradstein, M. Justman, V. Meier. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2005). 169 pp., $32, ISBN:0-262-07256-4 pp. 263-264

Robert Bifulco

Sylvia A. Allegretto, Sean P. Corcoran and Lawrence Mishel, How does teacher pay compare? Methodological challenges and answers, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC (2004) ISBN 1-932066-14-4 58pp pp. 265-266

John M. Krieg

Getting Choice Right: Ensuring Equity and Efficiency in Education Policy. Betts, J.R., Loveless, T. (Eds.), Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (2005), ISBN 0815753314 (255pp., index. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper)) pp. 267-268

Malcolm Getz

Who's in charge here? The tangled web of school governance and policy. N. Epstein (Ed.), Brookings Institution Press The Washington, DC and Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO (2004) ISBN: 0-8157-2472-1, (303pp, $ 32.95, cloth); ISBN: 0-8157-2471-3 ($22.95 paper) pp. 269-270

Sunwoong Kim

Volume 26, issue 1, 2007

Introduction to the special issue `The economics of early childhood education' Economics of education review pp. 1-2

Clive R. Belfield

Educational vouchers for universal pre-schools pp. 3-16

Henry M. Levin and Heather L. Schwartz

The effects of welfare and employment programs on children's participation in Head Start pp. 17-32

Young Eun Chang, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby and Lisa A. Gennetian

Does prekindergarten improve school preparation and performance? pp. 33-51

Katherine A. Magnuson, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

How much is too much? The influence of preschool centers on children's social and cognitive development pp. 52-66

Susanna Loeb, Margaret Bridges, Daphna Bassok, Bruce Fuller and Russell W. Rumberger

Does full-day kindergarten matter? Evidence from the first two years of schooling pp. 67-82

Philip DeCicca

Getting inside the "Black Box" of Head Start quality: What matters and what doesn't pp. 83-99

Janet Currie and Matthew Neidell

Do peers influence children's skill development in preschool? pp. 100-112

Gary T. Henry and Dana K. Rickman

Comparative benefit-cost analysis of the Abecedarian program and its policy implications pp. 113-125

W. Steven Barnett and Leonard N. Masse

Benefits and costs of investments in preschool education: Evidence from the Child-Parent Centers and related programs pp. 126-144

Judy A. Temple and Arthur J. Reynolds