Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 21, issue 6, 2002

Education and poverty in rural China pp. 523-541

Phil Brown and Albert Park

How do young people choose college majors? pp. 543-556

Claude Montmarquette, Kathleen Cannings and Sophie Mahseredjian

Determinants of salary growth in Shenzhen, China: an analysis of formal education, on-the-job training, and adult education with a three-level model pp. 557-577

Jin Xiao

The effects of school quality on income pp. 579-588

Kathryn Wilson

Where the boys aren't: non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education pp. 589-598

Brian A. Jacob

The effect of block scheduling high school mathematics courses on student achievement and teachers' use of time: implications for educational productivity pp. 599-607

Jennifer King Rice, Robert G. Croninger and Christopher F. Roellke

Changes in returns to education in India, 1983-94: by gender, age-cohort and location pp. 609-622

Duraisamy P

Free-education in Sri Lanka. Does it eliminate the family effect? pp. 623-633

Athula Ranasinghe and Joop Hartog

Absolute risk aversion and the returns to education pp. 635-640

Giorgio Brunello

Privatizing Education: Can the Marketplace Deliver Choice, Efficiency, Equity, and Social Cohesion?: Henry M. Levin (Ed.), Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2001, pp. xii + 359, index, Price $35.00 (paper) pp. 641-642

Malcolm Getz

Improving the Odds: Increasing the Effectiveness of Publicly Funded Training: Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King (Eds.). Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 2000. pp. xviii + 363 Price $24.00 paperback pp. 642-643

John Robst

Cost-effectiveness analysis, 2nd Edition: Henry M. Levin and Patrick J. McEwan. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2001. xx + 308 pp. Price: $32.95 (hardback) pp. 643-644

Brian O. Brent

The migration of knowledge workers: second-generation effects of India's brain drain: Binod Khadria. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999. pp. 240. Price: [UK pound]27.50 (cloth) pp. 644-645

Manuel J. Carvajal

The states and public higher education policy: affordability, access, and accountability: Edited by Donald E. Heller. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press, 2001. pp. ix+271. Price: $38.00 (cloth) pp. 645-646

William O. Brown

Catholic schools: private and social effects: William Sander. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, xiv + 138 pages. Price $100.00 (hardback) pp. 646-648

V. E. Lee

Volume 21, issue 5, 2002

Learning and earning in the middle, part II: state and local studies of pre-baccalaureate education pp. 401-414

W. Norton Grubb

Is a broader curriculum better? pp. 415-429

Peter Dolton and Anna Vignoles

Does the choice of university matter?: a study of the differences across UK universities in life sciences students' degree performance pp. 431-443

Massimiliano Bratti

Merit, need, and student self selection: is there discretion in the packaging of aid at a large public university? pp. 445-454

Larry D. Singell

Determinants of school attainment of boys and girls in Turkey: individual, household and community factors pp. 455-470

Aysıt Tansel

A nested logit model of the choice of a graduate business school pp. 471-480

Mark Montgomery

On the dynamics of quality student enrollment at institutions of higher education pp. 481-489

David Mayer-Foulkes

Hedonic wage equations for higher education faculty pp. 491-496

Philip Graves, James R. Marchand and Robert L. Sexton

Student loans in Canada: an analysis of borrowing and repayment pp. 497-512

S. Schwartz and Ross Finnie

Growth and educational levels: a comparative analysis pp. 513-521

Panagiotis Petrakis and D. Stamatakis

Volume 21, issue 4, 2002

Learning and earning in the middle, part I: national studies of pre-baccalaureate education pp. 299-321

W. Norton Grubb

Market-based reforms of public schooling: some unpleasant dynamics pp. 323-330

Nick Adnett, Spiros Bougheas and Peter Davies

Intergenerational mobility, sibling inequality and borrowing constraints pp. 331-340

Alejandro Gaviria

Public university in Argentina: subsidizing the rich? pp. 341-351

Martin Gonzalez Rozada and Alicia Menendez

Staying-on at school at 16: the impact of labor market conditions in Spain pp. 353-365

Barbara Petrongolo and Maria J. San Segundo

Financing student loans in Thailand: revolving fund or open-ended commitment? pp. 367-380

Adrian Ziderman

Immigrant status, race, and institutional choice in higher education pp. 381-392

Alison P. Hagy and J. Farley Ordovensky Staniec

All together now: creating middle-class schools through public choice: Richard D. Kahlenberg. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 2001. pp. xviii+379. Price: $29.95 (cloth) pp. 393-394

Melissa Binder

Book review: Youth unemployment and employment policy: a global perspective: Niall O'Higgins. Geneva: International Labour Office, 2001. pp. xii+212. Price: 27.50 Swiss Francs (paper) pp. 394-395

Gerard Lassibille

The price of admission: rethinking how Americans pay for college: Thomas J. Kane. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ix+164 pp. Price: US $36.95 (hardback), $15.95 (paperback) pp. 395-395

Stephen L. DesJardins

The market approach to education: an analysis of America's first voucher program: John F. Witte. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000. pp. xiv+221. Price $ 29.95 (hardback) pp. 396-397

James Mulligan

R&D, education and productivity: a retrospective: Zvi Griliches. Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2000. 127 pp., Price: $39.95, (hardback) pp. 397-398

Walter W. McMahon

Land-grant universities and extension into the 21st century: renegotiating or abandoning a social contract: George R. McDowell. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 2001, pp. xviii + 214. Price $ 59.95 (hardback) pp. 398-399

Samuel Cooper

Conflicting missions? Teachers unions and educational reform: Tom Loveless (Ed.). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000. pp. vi + 328. Price: $44.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper) pp. 399-400

Donald E. Frey

Volume 21, issue 3, 2002

Estimating the return to investments in education: how useful is the standard Mincer equation? pp. 195-210

Anders Bjorklund and Christian Kjellstrom

Model uncertainty and race and gender heterogeneity in the college entry decision pp. 211-219

Justin Tobias

Educational mismatch and wages: a panel analysis pp. 221-229

Thomas Bauer

Schooling, basic skills and economic outcomes pp. 231-243

Mamoru Ishikawa and Daniel Ryan

Revisiting economies of size in American education: are we any closer to a consensus? pp. 245-262

Matthew Andrews, William Duncombe and John Yinger

The effects of overeducation on productivity in Germany -- the firms' viewpoint pp. 263-275

Felix Buchel

The demand for higher education: Pennsylvania's nonresident tuition experience pp. 277-286

Abbas Noorbakhsh and David Culp

The underdetermination of instructor performance by data from the student evaluation of teaching pp. 287-294

Robert Sproule

Economic Principles for Education: Theory and Evidence: Clive R. Belfield, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2000, pp. x + 252, Price $90.00 cloth pp. 295-296

E. Cohn

Myth, reality, and reform: higher education policy in Latin America: Claudio De Moura Castro and Daniel C. Levy; Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., 2000, pp. vi+116, price US $19.95 paperback pp. 296-297

Djehane Hosni

High School Career Academies. A Pathway to Educational Reform in Urban School Districts?: Nan L. Maxwell and Victor Rubin, W.E. Upjohn Institute: Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2000. pp. ix + 237 Price $15.00 paperback pp. 297-297

C. Belfield

Volume 21, issue 2, 2002

Financial resources, regulation, and enrollment in US public higher education pp. 101-110

Mark Berger and Thomas Kostal

An analysis of the application and enrollment processes for in-state and out-of-state students at a large public university pp. 111-124

Bradley Curs and Larry Singell

Tuition discounting: theory and evidence pp. 125-136

Robert E. Martin

High school career academies and post-secondary outcomes pp. 137-152

Nan L. Maxwell and Victor Rubin

Higher education planning and the wages of workers with higher education in Taiwan pp. 153-169

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Way Sun

Children from disrupted families as adults: family structure, college attendance and college completion pp. 171-184

Michele Ver Ploeg

When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale: Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, pp. vii+342, Price $47.95 cloth pp. 187-188

C. E. Rouse

Returns to Human Capital in Europe: A Literature Review: Edited by Rita Asplund and Pedro Telhado Pereira. Helsinki: ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, 1999, p. 368. Price: 250 FIM (paper) pp. 187-187

Wim Groot

Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much: Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000, pp. x+322, Price U.S.$39.95 cloth pp. 189-191

Samuel Cooper

The Roles of Evaluation for Vocational Education and Training: Plain Talk on the Field of Dreams: W. Norton Grubb and Paul Ryan; International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland, 1999, pp. v+195, Price $18.95 paperback pp. 189-189

Ferran Mane

Public Provision and Performance: Contributions from Efficiency and Productivity Measurement: Jos L.T. Blank (Ed.); Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. v+412. Price $95 cloth pp. 191-192

Ron Zimmer and Dominic J. Brewer

The Overeducated Worker? The Economics of Skill Utilization: Lex Borghans and Andries de Grip (Eds); Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK 2000, pp. xvi+260, Price US$90.00 cloth pp. 192-194

Joop Hartog

Volume 21, issue 1, 2002

Implementing value-added measures of school effectiveness: getting the incentives right pp. 1-17

Helen Ladd and Randall Walsh

Does employer-financed general training pay? Evidence from the US Navy pp. 19-27

Federico Garcia, Jeremy Arkes and Robert Trost

Critical mass in the production of Ph.D.s: a multi-disciplinary study pp. 29-42

Frank Scott and Jeff Anstine

Can education expenditures reduce income inequality? pp. 43-52

Kevin Sylwester

Managing quality in higher education systems via minimal quality requirements: signaling and control pp. 53-62

Shlomo Mizrahi and Abraham Mehrez

Stochastic frontier estimation of a CES cost function: the case of higher education in Britain pp. 63-71

Hooshang Izadi, Geraint Johnes, Reza Oskrochi and Robert Crouchley

The value of education in a licensed profession: the choice of associate or baccalaureate degrees in nursing pp. 73-85

Joanne Spetz

Interstate variation in the use of fees to fund K-12 public education pp. 87-100

Robert Wassmer and Ronald Fisher