Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 29, issue 6, 2010

Analyzing the factors that influence persistence rates in STEM field, majors: Introduction to the symposium pp. 888-891

Ronald Ehrenberg

Attrition in STEM fields at a liberal arts college: The importance of grades and pre-collegiate preferences pp. 892-900

Kevin Rask

The effect of instructor race and gender on student persistence in STEM fields pp. 901-910

Joshua Price

Persistence of women and minorities in STEM field majors: Is it the school that matters? pp. 911-922

Amanda L. Griffith

The role of peers and grades in determining major persistence in the sciences pp. 923-934

Ben Ost

Who succeeds in STEM studies? An analysis of Binghamton University undergraduate students pp. 935-946

Edward Kokkelenberg and Esha Sinha

Do expenditures other than instructional expenditures affect graduation and persistence rates in American higher education? pp. 947-958

Douglas Webber and Ronald Ehrenberg

Is parental involvement lower at larger schools? pp. 959-970

Patrick Walsh

University rank and bachelor's labour market positions in China pp. 971-979

Joop Hartog, Yuze Sun and Xiaohao Ding

Equal educational spending across districts--A case study of Taiwan pp. 980-992

Hung-Lin Tao

Education and selective vouchers pp. 993-1004

Amedeo Piolatto

Persistence in the determination of work-related training participation: Evidence from the BHPS, 1991-1997 pp. 1005-1015

Panos Sousounis and Robin Bladen-Hovell

Do inequalities in parents' education play an important role in PISA students' mathematics achievement test score disparities? pp. 1016-1033

Maria Martins and Paula Veiga

The effects of school board consolidation and financing on student performance pp. 1034-1046

John Leach, A. Payne and Steve Chan

Education-occupation mismatch: Is there an income penalty? pp. 1047-1059

Martin Nordin, Inga Persson and Dan-Olof Rooth

Risk and career choice: Evidence from Turkey pp. 1060-1075

Asena Caner and Cagla Okten

Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation? pp. 1076-1085

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

Formal education, mismatch and wages after transition: Assessing the impact of unobserved heterogeneity using matching estimators pp. 1086-1099

Ana Lamo and Julian Messina

Admission to selective schools, alphabetically pp. 1100-1109

Stepan Jurajda and Daniel Münich

Do bans on affirmative action hurt minority students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan pp. 1110-1124

Kalena E. Cortes

Return to college education revisited: Is relevance relevant? pp. 1125-1142

Olga Yakusheva

The determinants of school district salary incentives: An empirical analysis of, where and why pp. 1143-1153

Stephanie M. Martin

Does money matter for schools? pp. 1154-1164

Helena Holmlund, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

Intergenerational conflict and public education expenditure when there is co-residence between the elderly and young pp. 1165-1175

Paulo Arvate and Ana Carolina Pereira Zoghbi

The effect of effort grading on learning pp. 1176-1182

Omari Swinton

Dominic J. Brewer and Patrick J. S McEwan, Editors, Economics of Education, Academic Press, Oxford (2010) pp. ix + 369, $99.95 pp. 1183-1184

Larry D. Singell and Brad R. Curs

Volume 29, issue 5, 2010

Thailand's Student Loans Fund: Interest rate subsidies and repayment burdens pp. 685-694

Bruce Chapman, Kiatanantha Lounkaew, Piruna Polsiri, Rangsit Sarachitti and Thitima Sitthipongpanich

Income contingent student loans for Thailand: Alternatives compared pp. 695-709

Bruce Chapman and Kiatanantha Lounkaew

Evaluating the Student Loan Fund of Thailand pp. 710-721

Somkiat Tangkitvanich and Areeya Manasboonphempool

The effects of the Kalamazoo Promise on college choice pp. 722-737

Rodney J. Andrews, Stephen DesJardins and Vimal Ranchhod

The price of admission: Who gets into private school, and how much do they pay? pp. 738-750

Nina Walton

Sports participation and academic performance: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health pp. 751-759

Daniel Rees and Joseph J. Sabia

The effect of wage compression and alternative labor market opportunities on teacher quality in Venezuela pp. 760-771

Daniel E. Ortega

Teacher MA attainment rates, 1970-2000 pp. 772-782

S. Eric Larsen

Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy pp. 783-794

Sarmistha Pal

The implications of family size and birth order for test scores and behavioral development pp. 795-803

Mary Silles

Heterogeneity, comparative advantage, and return to education: The case of Taiwan pp. 804-812

Yih-chyi Chuang and Wei-wen Lai

Is the GED an effective route to postsecondary education for school dropouts? pp. 813-825

John Tyler and Magnus Lofstrom

Suburban legend: School cutoff dates and the timing of births pp. 826-841

Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Todd Elder

The effects of accountability on higher education pp. 842-856

Marcelo Rezende

Disabled or young? Relative age and special education diagnoses in schools pp. 857-872

Elizabeth Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb

Is the 'Idiot's Box' raising idiocy? Early and middle childhood television watching and child cognitive outcome pp. 873-883

Abdul Munasib and Samrat Bhattacharya

Volume 29, issue 4, 2010

What's the value of an acceptance letter? Using admissions data to estimate the return to college pp. 504-516

Björn Öckert

Early decision and college performance pp. 517-525

Elizabeth Jensen and Stephen Wu

Educational disparity and the persistence of the black-white wage gap in the U.S pp. 526-542

Melanie O'Gorman

Faculty employment at 4-year colleges and universities pp. 543-552

Liang Zhang and Xiangmin Liu

Does price matter? Overseas students in UK higher education pp. 553-565

Kwok Tong Soo and Caroline Elliott

Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom experiment pp. 566-575

Carlos Dobkin, Ricard Gil and Justin Marion

Birth order, family size and educational attainment pp. 576-588

Monique De Haan

Measuring efficiency of Tunisian schools in the presence of quasi-fixed inputs: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis approach pp. 589-596

Hédi Essid, Pierre Ouellette and Stéphane Vigeant

Redistributive taxation vs. education subsidies: Fostering equality and social mobility in an intergenerational model pp. 597-605

Andrea Schneider

Returns to overeducation: A longitudinal analysis of the U.S. labor market pp. 606-617

Yuping Tsai

Child care subsidies and child development pp. 618-638

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

School assignment, school choice and social mobility pp. 639-649

Simon Burgess and Adam Briggs

The economic returns to field of study and competencies among higher education graduates in Ireland pp. 650-657

Elish Kelly, Philip O'Connell and Emer Smyth

Teacher hiring practices and educational efficiency pp. 658-668

Linn Renée Naper

Transforming public schools: Impact of the CRI program on child learning in Pakistan pp. 669-683

Muhammad Farooq Naseer, Manasa Patnam and Reehana R. Raza

Volume 29, issue 3, 2010

Expanding schooling opportunities for 4-year-olds pp. 319-328

Edwin Leuven, Mikael Lindahl, Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink

Faculty employment and R&D expenditures at Research universities pp. 329-337

Liang Zhang and Ronald Ehrenberg

Changes in the returns to education and college quality pp. 338-347

Mark Long

Early gender test score gaps across OECD countries pp. 348-363

Kelly Bedard and Insook Cho

Peer effects, motivation, and learning pp. 364-374

Gerald Eisenkopf

Health shocks and children's school attainments in rural China pp. 375-382

Ang Sun and Yang Yao

Are boys left behind? The evolution of the gender achievement gap in Beijing's middle schools pp. 383-399

Fang Lai

Participation in Canadian Universities: The gender imbalance (1977-2005) pp. 400-410

Louis Christofides, Michael Hoy and Ling Yang

Grade inflation under the threat of students' nuisance: Theory and evidence pp. 411-422

Wan-Ju Iris Franz

The impact of short-term economic fluctuations on kindergarten enrollment pp. 423-431

Douglas A. Herman

Does teacher professional development affect content and pedagogical knowledge: How much and for how long? pp. 432-439

Pete Goldschmidt and Geoffrey Phelps

Strategic interaction among public school districts: Evidence on spatial interdependence in school inputs pp. 440-450

Soma Ghosh

What determines basic school attainment in developing countries? Evidence from rural China pp. 451-460

Meng Zhao and Paul Glewwe

Do education and income affect support for democracy in Muslim countries? Evidence from the Pew Global Attitudes Project pp. 461-469

M. Najeeb Shafiq

Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany? pp. 470-479

Katharina Spiess and Katharina Wrohlich

Estimating teacher effectiveness from two-year changes in students' test scores pp. 480-488

Andrew Leigh

Religious background and educational attainment: The effects of Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism pp. 489-493

William Sander

Volume 29, issue 2, 2010

Preface to the special issue in honor of Henry M. Levin pp. 165-165

Elchanan Cohn

Festschrift in Honor of Henry M. Levin pp. 169-170

Clive Belfield

To leave or not to leave? A regression discontinuity analysis of the impact of failing the high school exit exam pp. 171-186

Dongshu Ou

The effects of quantitative skills training on college outcomes and peers pp. 187-199

Kristin Butcher, Patrick McEwan and Corrine H. Taylor

Cultural capital and its effects on education outcomes pp. 200-213

Lucia Tramonte and J. Douglas Willms

The relative and absolute risks of disadvantaged family background and low levels of school resources on student literacy pp. 214-224

Yuko Nonoyama-Tarumi and J. Douglas Willms

Gender disparities in science and engineering in Chinese universities pp. 225-235

Congbin Guo, Mun C. Tsang and Xiaohao Ding

Over-education: What influence does the workplace have? pp. 236-245

Clive Belfield

Education and the reproduction of economic inequality in the United States: An empirical investigation pp. 246-254

Russell W. Rumberger

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges pp. 255-270

Thomas Bailey, Dong Wook Jeong and Sung-Woo Cho

Benefits of early childhood interventions across the world: (Under) Investing in the very young pp. 271-282

Milagros Nores and W. Barnett

Exploring weighted student formulas as a policy for improving equity for distributing resources to schools: A case study of two California school districts pp. 283-300

Jay G. Chambers, Jesse D. Levin and Larisa Shambaugh

Who uses a means-tested scholarship, and what do they choose? pp. 301-317

David Figlio, Cassandra M.D. Hart and Molly Metzger

Volume 29, issue 1, 2010

Teacher labor markets and the perils of using hedonics to estimate compensating differentials in the public sector pp. 1-17

Dan Goldhaber, Katharine Destler and Daniel Player

After-school tutoring in the context of no Child Left Behind: Effectiveness of two programs in the Pittsburgh Public Schools pp. 18-28

Ron Zimmer, Laura Hamilton and Rachel Christina

High school employment, school performance, and college entry pp. 29-39

Chanyoung Lee and Peter Orazem

Do school entry laws affect educational attainment and labor market outcomes? pp. 40-54

Carlos Dobkin and Fernando Ferreira

The effect of home computer use on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills pp. 55-72

Mario Fiorini

Military deployments and children's academic achievement: Evidence from Department of Defense Education Activity Schools pp. 73-82

Rozlyn C. Engel, Luke B. Gallagher and David S. Lyle

Mothers, fathers and daughters: Intergenerational transmission of education in Greece pp. 83-93

Joan Daouli, Michael Demoussis and Nicholas Giannakopoulos

The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment--New evidence from Germany pp. 94-103

Christian Pfeifer and Thomas Cornelissen

Estimating the responsiveness of college applications to the likelihood of acceptance and financial assistance: Evidence from Texas pp. 104-115

Rodney J. Andrews, Vimal Ranchhod and Viji Sathy

The impact of a cash transfer program on cognitive achievement: The Bono de Desarrollo Humano of Ecuador pp. 116-125

Juan Ponce and Arjun Bedi

An examination of inter-district public school transfers in Wisconsin pp. 126-137

David M. Welsch, Bambi Statz and Mark Skidmore

The impact of high-stakes testing on student proficiency in low-stakes subjects: Evidence from Florida's elementary science exam pp. 138-146

Marcus A. Winters, Julie R. Trivitt and Jay P. Greene

Intergenerational correlations in educational attainment: Birth order and family size effects using Canadian data pp. 147-155

Anindya Sen and Anthony Clemente

Gender wage gaps by college major in Taiwan: Empirical evidence from the 1997-2003 Manpower Utilization Survey pp. 156-164

Eric Lin