Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 22, issue 6, 2003

The effective use of student time: a stochastic frontier production function case study pp. 547-560

Peter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez and Lucia Navarro

Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education pp. 561-566

Josef Fersterer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Family background, school enrollments and wastage: evidence from Arab countries pp. 567-580

Sulayman S. AL-Qudsi

Firm-related training tracks: a random effects ordered probit model pp. 581-589

Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Endowment spending rates, intergenerational equity and the sources of capital gains pp. 591-601

Geoffrey Woglom

The changing quality of business education pp. 603-609

Paul Mason, Jeffrey Steagall and Michael M. Fabritius

Demand for private supplementary tutoring: conceptual considerations, and socio-economic patterns in Hong Kong pp. 611-620

Mark Bray and Percy Kwok

Overeducation in the labor market: a comment and re-analysis of a meta-analysis pp. 621-629

Stephen Rubb

Comment on estimating school efficiency pp. 631-634

John Ruggiero

Response to comment on estimating school efficiency pp. 635-638

Robert Bifulco and Stuart Bretschneider

Rejoinder pp. 639-640

John Ruggiero

Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education: edited by Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2001, 322 pp., US$19.00 (paperback) pp. 641-643

Sunwoong Kim

A Notion at Risk: Edited by Richard D. Kahlenberg. New York, NY: A Century Foundation Book. 2000. pp. x+356. Price: $15.95 (paper) pp. 643-644

Steven Rivkin

Reallocating Resources: How to Boost Student Achievement Without Asking for More: By Allan Odden and Sarah Archibald. Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA., 2001. Pages, viii + 106. Price, $21.95 (paper), $47.95 (library ed.) pp. 644-645

Donald E. Frey

Market Education: The Unknown History: Andrew J. Coulson. New Brunswick, USA: Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Transaction Publishers. 1999. pp. 471. Price $24.95 (paper) pp. 645-646

Nick Adnett

Education, Training and Employment Dynamics. Transitional Labour Markets in the European Union: Edited by Klaus Schomann and Philip J. O'Connell. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2002. pp. xi+388. Price $125.00 (cloth) pp. 646-647

Maarten van Ham

Repay As You Earn: The Flawed Government Program to Help Students Have Public Service Careers: Phillip G. Schrag, Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey Publishing, 2002, pp xiv + 156, Price US$55.00 (Cloth) pp. 647-648

Sam Cooper

Financing a college education: how it works, how it's changing: Edited by Jacqueline E. King. Westport, CT: Oryx Press. 1999. pp. xix+216, Price $34.95 (paper) pp. 648-649

Edward P. St. John

The costs and financing of education: trends and policy implications: Mark Bray (Ed.), Hong Kong: Asian Development Bank and Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, 2002. pp. viii + 77, Price: $12.00 (paper) pp. 649-649

Geeta Kingdon

The global market for higher education: sustainable competitive strategies for the new millennium: Tim Mazzarol and Geoffrey Norman Soutar, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001. pp. vii+200, Price US $65 (hard cover) pp. 650-650

Rati Ram

Managing vocational training systems: a handbook for senior administrators: By Vladimir Gasskov. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Office, 2000. Pp. Xiv + 278. Price: $34.95 (paper) pp. 650-651

Ferran Mane

Improving educational productivity: Edited by David H. Monk, Herbert J. Walberg, and Margaret C. Wang. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2001. pp. 243. Price: $63.95 (paper) pp. 651-652

Robert Wassmer

Working in the twenty-first century: policies for economic growth through training, opportunity, and education: David I. Levine. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998 286pp. Price: US$36.95 pp. 652-653

W. Patrick Leonard

Education and national development: priorities, policies, and planning: By Don Adams; Education in Developing Asia, Vol. 1, Mark Bray (Ed.) Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines, and Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. vi+81. Price: US$12.00 (paper) pp. 653-654

Ying Chu Ng

Volume 22, issue 5, 2003

Foreword to special issue in honour of George Psacharopoulos pp. 449-449

Elchanan Cohn

Curious George: the enduring Psacharopoulos legacy on the economics of education in developing countries pp. 451-454

Emmanuel Jimenez and Harry Patrinos

On the mechanics of progress in primary education pp. 455-467

Alain Mingat and Jee-Peng Tan

The complementarity of language and other human capital: immigrant earnings in Canada pp. 469-480

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

Efficiency and equity in schools around the world pp. 481-502

Eric Hanushek and Javier A. Luque

Education and earnings in a transition economy: the case of Vietnam pp. 503-510

Peter R. Moock, Harry Patrinos and Meera Venkataraman

Numeracy, literacy and earnings: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth pp. 511-521

Christopher Dougherty

Child labor and school enrollment in Thailand in the 1990s pp. 523-536

Zafiris Tzannatos

Volume 22, issue 4, 2003

The impact of grading standards on student achievement, educational attainment, and entry-level earnings pp. 343-352

Julian R. Betts and Jeffrey Grogger

The early employment and further education experiences of high school dropouts: a comparative study of the United States and Australia pp. 353-366

Russell W. Rumberger and Stephen P. Lamb

The supply of public school quality pp. 367-377

David Brasington

Determinants of school enrollment and completion of 10 to 18 year olds in China pp. 379-388

Rachel Connelly and Zhenzhen Zheng

Overeducation: a short or long run phenomenon for individuals? pp. 389-394

Stephen Rubb

School quality and the distribution of male earnings in Canada pp. 395-407

Kelly Bedard

The effects of state policies, individual characteristics, family characteristics, and neighbourhood characteristics on grade repetition in the United States pp. 409-420

H. Corman

Can vocational education improve the wages of minorities and disadvantaged groups?: The case of Israel pp. 421-432

Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman

The cost of specialized human capital pp. 433-438

Tim Perri

Costs of asynchronous distance ventures pp. 439-443

Ernst Z. Rothkopf

Education and earning in Europe: Edited by Colm Harmon, Ian Walker, and Niels Westergaard-Nielson. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001. ix+332 pp. Price: $95.00 (hardback) pp. 445-446

McKinley Blackburn

Meritocracy and Economic Inequality: Edited by Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. pp. xv + 348. Price $21.95 (paper) pp. 446-447

John D. Owen

Volume 22, issue 3, 2003

The sources and uses of annual giving at selective private research universities and liberal arts colleges pp. 223-235

Ronald Ehrenberg and Christopher Smith

Who benefits from a GED? Evidence for females from High School and Beyond pp. 237-247

John Tyler, Richard Murnane and John B. Willett

Measuring the determinants of school completion in Pakistan: analysis of censoring and selection bias pp. 249-264

Jessica Holmes

Design, evaluation, and sustainability of private schools for the poor: the Pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments pp. 265-274

Harold Alderman, Jooseop Kim and Peter Orazem

A study of the impact of public school spending on postsecondary educational attainment using statewide school district refinancing in Kansas pp. 275-284

John Deke

Technology adoption and labor training under uncertainty pp. 285-289

James P. Gander

Does cost of schooling affect enrollment by the poor? Universal primary education in Uganda pp. 291-305

Klaus Deininger

A new twist in the educational tracking debate pp. 307-315

Ron Zimmer

Economic transition and returns to education in China pp. 317-328

Haizheng Li

School resources and student achievement revisited: new evidence from panel data pp. 329-335

Iida Häkkinen Skans, Tanja Kirjavainen and Roope Uusitalo

The Emerging Markets and Higher Education: Development and Sustainability: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education, Volume 24. Edited by Matthew S. McMullen, James E. Mauch, and Bob Donnorummo. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2000. Price: $75.00 (cloth) pp. 337-338

David N. Plank

World Employment Report 2001: Life at Work in the Information Economy: Geneva: International Labour Office, 2001. pp. xv+371. $34.95 (paper) pp. 338-339

William L. Weber

Dollars, Distance, and Online Education: The New Economics of College Teaching and Learning: Martin J. Finkelstein, Carol Frances, Frank I. Jewett and Bernhard Scholz (Editors). Phoenix, AZ: The Oryx Press for The American Council of Education, 2000. xvii + 373pp. Price $39.95 (hardback) pp. 339-340

Andrew P. Roth

School Choice and Social Controversy: Politics, Policy and Law: S.D. Sugarman and F.R. Kenerer (Eds.); Washington, DC; Brookings Institution Press. 1999. pp. viii + 378. Price $19.95 (paper) pp. 340-341

David Brasington

Volume 22, issue 2, 2003

Alumni giving to elite private colleges and universities pp. 109-120

Charles Clotfelter

Patterns of giving to one's alma mater among young graduates from selective institutions pp. 121-130

James Monks

Peer effects on student achievement: evidence from Chile pp. 131-141

Patrick McEwan

Education and earnings: a multilevel analysis: A case study of the manufacturing sector in Iran pp. 143-156

A. Naderi and J. Mace

Fast track or failure: a study of the graduation and dropout rates of Ph D students in economics pp. 157-166

Jan van Ours and Geert Ridder

The effects of parents' psychiatric disorders on children's high school dropout pp. 167-178

Farah Farahati, Dave Marcotte and Virginia Wilcox

Earning differences by major field of study: evidence from three cohorts of recent Canadian graduates pp. 179-192

Ross Finnie and Marc Frenette

School district size and student performance pp. 193-201

Donna Driscoll, Dennis Halcoussis and Shirley Svorny

The education and wages of immigrant children: the impact of age at arrival pp. 203-212

Arturo Gonzalez

Education, technical progress, and economic growth: the case of Taiwan pp. 213-220

T. -C. Lin

Oversold and underused: computers in the classroom: Larry Cuban. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: 2001. 250 pp. Price $ 27.95 (cloth) pp. 221-221

W. P. Leonard

Revitalizing federal education research and development: improving the R&D centers, regional educational laboratories, and the "new" OERI: Maris A. Vinovskis. University of Michigan Press, USA, 2001, pp. xv + 273 Price $54.50 Cloth pp. 222-222

W. P. Leonard

Volume 22, issue 1, 2003

Minimum wages and skill acquisition: another look at schooling effects pp. 1-10

David Neumark and William Wascher

Minimum wages and school enrollment of teenagers: a look at the 1990's pp. 11-21

Duncan D. Chaplin, Mark D. Turner and Andreas Pape

Do community colleges really divert students from earning bachelor's degrees? pp. 23-30

D. E. Leigh and Andrew Gill

Wage and test score dispersion: some international evidence pp. 31-43

Kelly Bedard and Christopher Ferrall

Why have public university professors done so badly? pp. 45-57

Cindy Zoghi

Perceptions of female faculty treatment in higher education: which institutions treat women more fairly? pp. 59-67

John Robst, Jennifer VanGilder and Solomon Polachek

Intradistrict equity of public education resources and performance pp. 69-78

P. Iatarola and L. Stiefel

A comparison of initial and early life course earnings of the German secondary education and training system pp. 79-88

L. P. Cooke

The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis pp. 89-97

Malcolm Abbott and Chris Doucouliagos

Vocational education in Thailand: a study of choice and returns pp. 99-107

Thammarak Moenjak and Christopher Worswick