Handbook of the Economics of Education

Edited by Erik Hanushek and F. Welch

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Ch 01 Post Schooling Wage Growth: Investment, Search and Learning

Yona Rubinstein and Yoram Weiss

Ch 02 Long-Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the United States

Sandra E. Black and Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Ch 03 Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

William J. Collins and Robert Andrew Margo

Ch 04 Immigrants and Their Schooling

James P. Smith

Ch 05 Educational Wage Premia and the Distribution of Earnings: An International Perspective

Franco Peracchi

Ch 06 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey

Donald R. Deere and Jelena Vesovic

Ch 07 Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond

James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Petra E. Todd

Ch 08 The Social Value of Education and Human Capital

Fabian Lange and Robert H. Topel

Ch 09 Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?

Derek Neal

Ch 10 Education and Nonmarket Outcomes

Michael Grossman

Ch 11 Does Learning to Add up Add up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data

Lant Pritchett

Ch 12 Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman and Lance Lochner

Ch 13 Using Wages to Infer School Quality

Robert Speakman and Finis Welch

Ch 14 School Resources

Eric Hanushek

Ch 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn - Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure

John Bishop

Ch 16 Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries

Paul William Glewwe and Michael Kremer

Ch 17 Has School Desegregation Improved Academic and Economic Outcomes for Blacks?

Steven Rivkin and Finis Welch

Ch 18 Teacher Quality

Eric Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin

Ch 19 Teacher Supply

Peter John Dolton

Ch 20 Pre-School, Day Care, and After-School Care: Who's Minding the Kids?

David Blau and Janet Currie

Ch 21 The Courts and Public School Finance: Judge-Made Centralization and Economic Research

William A. Fischel

Ch 22 Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools

Thomas Nechyba

Ch 23 Public Intervention in Post-Secondary Education

Thomas J. Kane

Ch 24 US Higher Education Finance

Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro

Ch 25 Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: International Reforms

Bruce James Chapman

Ch Preface Preface

Eric Hanushek and F. Welch

Ch Preface Preface

Eric Hanushek and Finis Welch