Economics of Education Review

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Volume 30, issue 6, 2011

Economic returns to education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going—Some brief pointers pp. 1118-1122

Matt Dickson and Colm Harmon

The impact of tougher education standards: Evidence from Florida pp. 1123-1135

Damon Clark and Edward See

Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students pp. 1136-1152

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon and Cathy Redmond

Earnings returns to the British education expansion pp. 1153-1166

Paul Devereux and Wen Fan

What determines the return to education: An extra year or a hurdle cleared? pp. 1167-1176

Matt Dickson and Sarah Smith

Differences by degree: Evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales pp. 1177-1186

Ian Walker and Yu Zhu

Subject choice and earnings of UK graduates pp. 1187-1201

Arnaud Chevalier

Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return pp. 1202-1214

Daniel Henderson, Solomon Polachek and Le Wang

Returning to school for higher returns pp. 1215-1228

Seonyoung Park

The effectiveness and retention of teachers with prior career experience pp. 1229-1241

Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Marsha Ing, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, O’Brien, Rachel and James Wyckoff

Valuing the benefits of the education provided by public universities: A case study of Minnesota pp. 1242-1261

Amy Damon and Paul Glewwe

Using longitudinal data to evaluate publicly provided formal education for low skilled pp. 1262-1280

Anders Stenberg

Effects of year-round schooling on disadvantaged students and the distribution of standardized test performance pp. 1281-1305

Jennifer Graves

Gender salary differences in economics departments in Japan pp. 1306-1319

Ana Maria Takahashi and Shingo Takahashi

The effects of school quality on long-term health pp. 1320-1333

Shahar Sansani

Overeducation in developing economies: How can we test for it, and what does it mean? pp. 1334-1347

Aashish Mehta, Jesus Felipe, Pilipinas Quising and Sheila Camingue

Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does Mission Sucre have a role to play? pp. 1348-1369

Naihobe Gonzalez and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

Understanding the black–white school discipline gap pp. 1370-1383

Josh Kinsler

Does school time matter?—On the impact of compulsory education age on school dropout pp. 1384-1398

Sofie J. Cabus and Kristof De Witte

Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training pp. 1399-1415

Dhaval Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman and Dhiman Das

Frequency of examinations and student achievement in a randomized experiment pp. 1416-1429

Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa

The determinants of teacher mobility: Evidence using Italian teachers’ transfer applications pp. 1430-1444

Gianna Barbieri, Claudio Rossetti and Paolo Sestito

School quality signals and attendance in rural Guatemala pp. 1445-1455

Jeffery H. Marshall

Does parental employment affect children's educational attainment? pp. 1456-1467

Hannah Schildberg-Hoerisch

Which children benefit from non-parental care? pp. 1468-1490

Chikako Yamauchi and Andrew Leigh

The impact of education investment on Sri Lankan economic growth pp. 1491-1502

K. Renuka Ganegodage and Alicia Rambaldi

The effect of immigrant concentration in schools on native and immigrant children's reading and math skills pp. 1503-1515

Peter Jensen and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

Do colleges cultivate critical thinking, problem solving, writing and interpersonal skills? pp. 1516-1526

Anna Rosefsky Saavedra and Juan Esteban Saavedra

The impact of child labor on schooling outcomes in Nicaragua pp. 1527-1539

Mariela Buonomo Zabaleta

Volume 30, issue 5, 2011

Introduction to the Special Issue on Education and Health pp. 775-777

Eric R. Eide and Daniel Rees

Estimating the relation between health and education: What do we know and what do we need to know? pp. 778-791

Eric R. Eide and Mark H. Showalter

The impact of education on health knowledge pp. 792-812

Duha Altindag, Colin Cannonier and Naci Mocan

Forward-thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior pp. 813-825

Benjamin Cowan

College selectivity and young adult health behaviors pp. 826-837

Jason Fletcher and David Frisvold

Educational gaps in medical care and health behavior: Evidence from US Natality data pp. 838-849

Joseph Price, Joshua Price and Kosali Simon

Back to school blues: Seasonality of youth suicide and the academic calendar pp. 850-861

Benjamin Hansen and Matthew Lang

Does schooling affect health behavior? Evidence from the educational expansion in Western Germany pp. 862-872

Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold and Martin Salm

Poisoning the mind: Arsenic contamination of drinking water wells and children's educational achievement in rural Bangladesh pp. 873-888

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

Recess, physical education, and elementary school student outcomes pp. 889-900

Angela Dills, Hillary N. Morgan and Kurt W. Rotthoff

Do child care subsidies influence single mothers' decision to invest in human capital? pp. 901-912

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

Individual heterogeneity and reverse causality in the relationship between migraine headache and educational attainment pp. 913-923

Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel Rees

Conditional cash penalties in education: Evidence from the Learnfare experiment pp. 924-937

Thomas Dee

Second-generation Turkish youth in Europe: Explaining the academic disadvantage in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland pp. 938-949

Steve Song

Are we wasting our children's time by giving them more homework? pp. 950-961

Ozkan Eren and Daniel Henderson

Can districts keep good teachers in the schools that need them most? pp. 962-979

Cassandra Guarino, Abigail B. Brown and Adam E. Wyse

Effects of class size on alternative educational outcomes across disciplines pp. 980-990

Dorothy A. Cheng

Is it where you go or who you know? On the relationship between students, Ph.D. program quality, dissertation advisor prominence, and early career publishing success pp. 991-996

Michael J. Hilmer and Christiana E. Hilmer

The (adverse) effects of expanding higher education: Evidence from Italy pp. 997-1008

Veruska Oppedisano

Does the timing of tracking affect higher education completion? pp. 1009-1021

Roel van Elk, Marc van der Steeg and Dinand Webbink

Keeping up with the Joneses: Institutional changes following the adoption of a merit aid policy pp. 1022-1033

Amanda L. Griffith

Suing for your supper? Resource allocation, teacher compensation and finance lawsuits pp. 1034-1044

David P. Sims

Same work, lower grade? Student ethnicity and teachers' subjective assessments pp. 1045-1058

Reyn Van Ewijk

(Un)desirable effects of output funding for Flemish universities pp. 1059-1072

B. Cantillon, A. De Ridder, E. Vanhaecht and G. Verbist

Size matters. The relevance and Hicksian surplus of preferred college class size pp. 1073-1084

Philipp Mandel and Bernd Süssmuth

Human capital background and the educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in France pp. 1085-1096

Manon Domingues Dos Santos and François-Charles Wolff

Trust and schooling in the United States pp. 1097-1102

Oguzhan Dincer

I would walk 500 miles (if it paid): Vouchers and school choice in Chile pp. 1103-1114

Romulo Chumacero, Daniel Gómez and Ricardo Paredes

Volume 30, issue 4, 2011

Peer effects on high school aspirations: Evidence from a sample of close and not-so-close friends pp. 575-581

Toni Mora and Philip Oreopoulos

Inefficient self-selection into education and wage inequality pp. 582-597

Patrizia Ordine and Giuseppe Rose

Reevaluating the effect of non-teaching wages on teacher attrition pp. 598-616

Gregory A. Gilpin

A low-subsidy problem in public higher education pp. 617-626

Gary Fethke

Early commitment on financial aid and college decision making of poor students: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural China pp. 627-640

Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Renfu Luo, Xiaobing Wang, Scott Rozelle, Brian Sharbono, Jennifer Adams, Yaojiang Shi, Ai Yue, Hongbin Li and Thomas Glauben

Accounting for exogenous influences in performance evaluations of teachers pp. 641-653

Kristof De Witte and Nicky Rogge

Which students are left behind? The racial impacts of the No Child Left Behind Act pp. 654-664

John M. Krieg

The Internet's effect on women's coauthoring rates and academic job market decisions: The case of political science pp. 665-672

Daniel M. Butler and Richard J. Butler

Student expectations of the financial returns to higher education in the Czech Republic and England: Evidence from business schools pp. 673-681

John R. Anchor, Jana Fiserová, Mars[iota]ková, Katerina and Václav Urbánek

Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools? pp. 682-690

Björn Tyrefors, Erik Höglin and Magnus Johannesson

Continuous training and wages: An empirical analysis using a comparison-group approach pp. 691-701

Katja Görlitz

Performance effects of failure to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP): Evidence from a regression discontinuity framework pp. 702-723

Steven W. Hemelt

Why preferences in college admissions may yield a more-able student body pp. 724-728

Dong Li and Dennis L. Weisman

Lecturing style teaching and student performance pp. 729-739

Chris Klaveren

Does household income matter for children's schooling? Evidence for rural Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 740-754

Michael Grimm

The effects of adult literacy on earnings and employment pp. 755-764

Maúna Soares de Baldini Rocha and Vladimir Ponczek

The quality vs. the quantity of schooling: What drives economic growth? pp. 765-773

Theodore Breton

Volume 30, issue 3, 2011

Overview of the symposium on performance pay for teachers pp. 391-393

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

Teacher opinions on performance pay: Evidence from India pp. 394-403

Karthik Muralidharan and Venkatesh Sundararaman

Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay pp. 404-418

Ludger Woessmann

Promotion and reassignment in public school districts: How do schools respond to differences in teacher effectiveness? pp. 419-433

Matthew M. Chingos and Martin R. West

What's in a rating? pp. 434-448

Brian A. Jacob and Elias Walsh

It's easier to pick a good teacher than to train one: Familiar and new results on the correlates of teacher effectiveness pp. 449-465

Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson

The economic value of higher teacher quality pp. 466-479

Eric Hanushek

The impact of legacy status on undergraduate admissions at elite colleges and universities pp. 480-492

Michael Hurwitz

What will I be when I grow up? An analysis of childhood expectations and career outcomes pp. 493-506

Sarah Brown, Aurora Ortiz-Nuñez and Karl Taylor

High scores but low skills pp. 507-516

Liqun Liu and William Neilson

The medium term schooling and health effects of low birth weight: Evidence from siblings pp. 517-527

Jason Fletcher

Education and labor market risk: Understanding the role of data cleaning pp. 528-545

Alexander Whalley

Catholic schools or school quality? The effects of Catholic schools on labor market outcomes pp. 546-558

Young-Joo Kim

What can teachers do to raise pupil achievement? pp. 559-574

Monazza Aslam and Geeta Kingdon

Volume 30, issue 2, 2011

Do no-loan policies change the matriculation patterns of low-income students? pp. 203-214

Glen Waddell and Larry D. Singell

Do students expect compensation for wage risk? pp. 215-227

Jürg Schweri, Joop Hartog and Stefan Wolter

The impact of legalized abortion on high school graduation through selection and composition pp. 228-246

Stephan Whitaker

The chicken soup effect: The role of recreation and intramural participation in boosting freshman grade point average pp. 247-257

Godfrey A. Gibbison, Tracyann L. Henry and Jayne Perkins-Brown

The intergenerational effects of parental schooling on the cognitive and non-cognitive development of children pp. 258-268

Mary Silles

What a difference a day makes: Estimating daily learning gains during kindergarten and first grade using a natural experiment pp. 269-279

Maria Fitzpatrick, David Grissmer and Sarah Hastedt

Does high school quality matter? Evidence from admissions data pp. 280-288

Daniel Berkowitz and Mark Hoekstra

Short-run effects of parental job loss on children's academic achievement pp. 289-299

Ann Stevens and Jessamyn Schaller

The effects of quarter of birth on academic outcomes at the elementary school level pp. 300-311

Erin Robertson

School quality, child wellbeing and parents' satisfaction pp. 312-331

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

The effects of attending a diverse college pp. 332-341

Peter Hinrichs

Economic returns to speaking 'standard Mandarin' among migrants in China's urban labour market pp. 342-352

Wenshu Gao and Russell Smyth

The academic impact on children of maternal post-secondary enrollment pp. 353-364

Sarah M. Estelle

Is traditional teaching really all that bad? A within-student between-subject approach pp. 365-379

Guido Schwerdt and Amelie Wuppermann

The role of social trust in reducing long-term truancy and forming human capital in Japan pp. 380-389

Eiji Yamamura

Volume 30, issue 1, 2011

The effects of alcohol use on academic achievement in high school pp. 1-15

Ana Balsa, Laura Giuliano and Michael T. French

Immigration and student achievement: Evidence from Switzerland pp. 16-38

Muriel Meunier

The effect of school inputs on labor market returns that account for selective migration pp. 39-54

Peter McHenry

Who benefits from homework assignments? pp. 55-64

Marte Rønning

Do you want your child to have a certified teacher? pp. 65-78

Christian Andersson, Per Johansson and Nina Waldenström

Public subsidies to private schools do make a difference for achievement in mathematics: Longitudinal evidence from Canada pp. 79-98

Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan and Matthieu Verstraete

Teachers' unions and compensation: The impact of collective bargaining on salary schedules and performance pay schemes pp. 99-108

Kristine Lamm West and Elton Mykerezi

Skills, standards, and disabilities: How youth with learning disabilities fare in high school and beyond pp. 109-129

Andrew McGee

Labour market mismatch among UK graduates: An analysis using REFLEX data pp. 130-145

Seamus McGuinness and Peter Sloane

School quality, clustering and government subsidy in post-apartheid South Africa pp. 146-156

Futoshi Yamauchi

Does food insecurity at home affect non-cognitive performance at school? A longitudinal analysis of elementary student classroom behavior pp. 157-176

Larry L. Howard

The effect of student aid on the duration of study pp. 177-190

Daniela Glocker

Effect of increased academic momentum on transfer rates: An application of the generalized propensity score pp. 191-200

William R. Doyle

Erratum to "The relative and absolute risks of disadvantaged family background and low levels of school resources on student literacy" [Econ. Educ. Rev. 29 (2010) 214-224] pp. 201-202

Yuko Nonoyama-Tarumi and J. Douglas Willms