Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 20, issue 6, 2001

Effects of key state policies on private colleges and universities: sustaining private-sector capacity in the face of the higher education access challenge pp. 517-531

Fred Thompson and William Zumeta

Alumni giving at a small liberal arts college: evidence from consistent and occasional donors pp. 533-543

Phanindra Wunnava and Michael A. Lauze

Loan burdens and educational outcomes pp. 545-550

James Monks

Redistributive fee increases, net attendance costs, and the distribution of students at the public university pp. 551-562

Michael J. Hilmer

The effect of grade retention on educational and labor market outcomes pp. 563-576

Eric Eide and Mark Showalter

Examining the impact of capital on academic achievement pp. 577-588

John T. Jones and Ron Zimmer

Measuring the relationship between resources and outcomes in higher education in the UK pp. 589-602

C. R. Belfield and Antony Fielding

New Markets, New Opportunities? Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World: N. Birdsall and C. Graham (Eds.);. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2000, pp. vii+331, Price: U.S. $24.95 paperback pp. 603-604

M. P. McKeown-Moak

Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports.: Andrew Zimbalist, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999, pp. xii + 252, Price US $24.95 cloth pp. 604-604

Donald E. Frey

Schools for Sale: Why Free Market Policies Won't Improve America's Schools and What Will: Ernest R. House, Teachers College Press, New York, 1998, pp. 158, Price: $43.00 cloth pp. 605-605

Dan D. Goldhaber

Vouchers and the Provision of Public Services: C.E. Steuerle, Van Doorn Ooms, George Peterson, and R.D. Reischauer (Eds), Brookings Institution Press, Washington D.C., 2000, pp. viii+552, Price $22.95 paperback pp. 606-607

Patrick Galvin

Needs-Based Resource Allocation in Education: Via Formula Funding of Schools: Kenneth N. Ross and Rosalind Levacic (Eds.), UNESCO Publishing, Paris, 1999, pp. xi + 257, Price $80.00 cloth pp. 607-608

Samuel T. Cooper

The shadow education system: private tutoring and its implications for planners: Mark Bray; UNESCO, International Institute for Educational Planning, 2000, pp. 27, Price $15.00 paper pp. 608-609

D. W. Chapman

Making money matter: financing America's schools: Helen F. Ladd and Janet S. Hansen (Eds); National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999, pp. iv+352, Price US $39.95 cloth pp. 609-611

Robert Wassmer

Private education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A re-examination of theories and concepts related to its development and finance: Igor Kitaev; International Institute for educational planning, Paris, France, 1999, pp. 195, Price: $10.00 paperback pp. 611-612

Happy Siphambe

Education and Development: Measuring the Social Benefits: Walter W. McMahon; Oxford University Press, New York, 1999, pp. xiv + 299, Price U.S. $55 cloth pp. 612-613

J. Paul Leigh

Globalization and Educational Reform: What Planners Need to Know: Martin Carnoy; UNESCO: International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris, 1999, pp. 96, Price U.S.$15 paperback pp. 613-614

Rati Ram

Volume 20, issue 5, 2001

Estimating school efficiency: A comparison of methods using simulated data pp. 417-429

Robert Bifulco and Stuart Bretschneider

Is participation in high school athletics an investment or a consumption good?: Evidence from high school and beyond pp. 431-442

Eric Eide and Nick Ronan

Determining the optimal size of study fields in Flemish secondary education pp. 443-457

Mike Smet

Higher standards, more dropouts? Evidence within and across time pp. 459-473

Dean R. Lillard and Philip P. DeCicca

The determinants of university dropouts: a bivariate probability model with sample selection pp. 475-484

Claude Montmarquette, Sophie Mahseredjian and Rachel Houle

Grade targets and teaching innovations pp. 485-493

Sam Allgood

Was higher education a quasi-fixed factor for firms in the 1980s? pp. 495-501

Li-Hsuan Huang

Measuring social returns to higher education investments in Hong Kong: production function approach pp. 503-510

Jan P. Voon

The Economics of Knowledge Production: Funding and the Structure of University Research: Aldo Guena; Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, 1999. pp. xix +205, Price: U.S.$80.00 (cloth) pp. 511-512

Geraint Johnes

The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions: William G. Bowen and Derek Bok, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ: 1998, pp. ix+472, Price: $24.95 cloth pp. 512-514

M. S. McPherson

Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market: Frederick L. Pryor and David L. Schaffer, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1999, pp. vii+300, Price: U.S.$34.95 cloth pp. 514-515

Peter Hall

The International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research: Charles Teddlie and David Reynolds, Falmer Press, London and New York, 2000, pp. xiii+411, Price $44.95 paperback pp. 515-516

James D. Unnever

Volume 20, issue 4, 2001

Preface to special issue: in honor of John Riew pp. 307-307

Elchanan Cohn

Introduction to the special issue in honor of Professor John H. Riew pp. 309-310

David Ribar

Do different dimensions of male high school students' skills predict labor market success a decade later? Evidence from the NLSY pp. 311-320

Richard Murnane, John B. Willett, M. Jay Braatz and Yves Duhaldeborde

Household schooling behaviors and decentralization pp. 321-341

Jere Behrman and Elizabeth King

Intergenerational conflict reconsidered: county demographic structure and the demand for public education pp. 343-357

Helen Ladd and Sheila E. Murray

Gender, poverty, family structure, and investments in children's education in Kinshasa, Congo pp. 359-375

David Shapiro and B. Oleko Tambashe

Student performance, attrition, and class size given missing student data pp. 377-388

William Becker and John R. Powers

Public for private: the relationship between public and private school enrollment in the Philippines pp. 389-399

Emmanuel Jimenez and Yasuyuki Sawada

The effects of local employment opportunities on youths' work and schooling pp. 401-413

David Ribar

Volume 20, issue 3, 2001

Tiebout sorting, aggregation and the estimation of peer group effects pp. 201-209

Steven Rivkin

Genetic and environmental contributions to educational attainment in Australia pp. 211-224

Paul Miller, Charles Mulvey and Nick Martin

Unobservable family effects and the apparent external benefits of education pp. 225-233

John Gibson

A principal component analysis of the U.S. News & World Report tier rankings of colleges and universities pp. 235-244

Thomas J. Webster

Do parental income and educational attainment affect the initial choices of New Hampshire's college-bound students? pp. 245-262

Robert K. Toutkoushian

A comparison of alternative specifications of the college attendance equation with an extension to two-stage selectivity-correction models pp. 263-278

Michael J. Hilmer

Efficiency and costs in education: year-round versus traditional schedules pp. 279-287

Nasser Daneshvary and Terrence M. Clauretie

Sources of funds and quality effects in higher education pp. 289-295

William O. Brown

Multi-product total cost function for higher education: a case of bible colleges pp. 297-303

Rajindar K. Koshal, Manjulika Koshal and Ashok Gupta

The Private Costs of Public Schooling: Household and Community Financing of Primary Education in Cambodia;: Mark Bray; International Institute for Educational Planning and UNICEF. Paris 1999. 127 pp. Paperback. $10.00 pp. 305-306

Geoffrey Coyne

Volume 20, issue 2, 2001

The effects of state political interests and campus outputs on public university revenues pp. 105-119

Robert C. Lowry

Dynamic rates of return to education in the U.S pp. 121-138

Omar Arias and Walter W. McMahon

Youth transition from school to work in Spain pp. 139-149

Gerard Lassibille, Lucia Navarro Gomez, Isabel Aguilar Ramos and Carolina de la O Sanchez

Transfer from two-year to four-year college: an analysis of gender differences pp. 151-163

Brian J. Surette

Educational attainment and the gender wage gap: evidence from the 1986 and 1991 Canadian censuses pp. 165-180

Pamela Christie and Michael Shannon

Post-school-age training among women: training methods and labor market outcomes at older ages pp. 181-191

Elizabeth T. Hill

Social Choice and the Quasi-market.: Edited by Geoffrey Walford. Oxfordshire, UK: Triangle Books, 1996. pp. 144. Price: $38.00 (paper) pp. 193-194

Herbert Kiesling

The Economics of Education: An Analysis of College-Going Behavior.: By Kazuhiro Arai. Sokosha, Japan: Springer, 1998. pp. vii+201. Price: DM148 (cloth) pp. 194-195

Donald E. Heller

Education Policy Analysis 1998.: By Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Paris, France: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 1998 84 pp. Price: FF 120; U.S.$ 20.00 DM 36 (paper) pp. 195-196

W. Patrick Leonard

Processes of Transition in Education Systems: Elizabeth McLeish and David Phillips (Eds.); Symposium Books, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 1998, pp. 102, Price $38.00 paperback pp. 196-197

Wolfgang Mitter

Parents as Partners in Schooling;: OECD, Paris, 1997. 208 pages, paper, $30.00 (FF150) pp. 197-198

Samuel Cooper

Volume 20, issue 1, 2001

Evaluating performance in Chicago public high schools in the wake of decentralization pp. 1-14

Shawna Grosskopf and Chad Moutray

Rational choice under unequal constraints: the example of Belgian higher education pp. 15-26

Denis Rochat and Jean-Luc Demeulemeester

The efficiency-equity trade-off of schooling outcomes: public education expenditures and welfare in Mexico pp. 27-40

Alec Ian Gershberg and Til Schuermann

A merit pay allocation model for college faculty based on performance quality and quantity pp. 41-49

H. Roland Weistroffer, Michael A. Spinelli, George C. Canavos and F. Paul Fuhs

Pay for performance in public and private schools pp. 51-61

Dale Ballou

Determinants of intrastate variation in teacher salaries pp. 63-70

Michael Walden and Zulal Sogutlu

Is there a crowding-out effect between school expenditure and mother's child care time? pp. 71-80

Hongkyun Kim

Can flexible non-linear modeling tell us anything new about educational productivity? pp. 81-92

Bruce D. Baker

Human Capital Investment: An International Comparison: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, OECD, Paris, 1998, pp. 113, Price $25.00 paperback pp. 93-94

Julia A. Heath

Opportunity Foregone: Education in Brazil: Nancy Birdsall and Richard H. Sabot; Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. Distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. xvi+566, Price: US$19.95 (paper) pp. 94-95

Manuel J. Carvajal

Enrollment Management for the 21st Century: Institutional Goals, Accountability, and Fiscal Responsibility: Garlene Penn; ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Volume 26, No. 7. Washington, DC: The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, 1999, pp. iii+89, Price: $24.00 (paper) pp. 95-96

Andrew Roth

Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-based Reform in Education: Helen F. Ladd (Ed.); The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1996, pp. vii+382, Price: $42.95 (cloth) pp. 96-97

James Mulligan

Going to college: How social, economic and educational factors influence the decisions students make: Don Hossler, Jack Schmit and Nick Vesper; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1999, pp. vii+ 173, Price U.S. $18.95 paper pp. 97-98

Charlotte H. Scott

American higher education in the twenty-first century: Social, policial, and economic challenges: Philip G. Altbach, Robert O. Berdahl and Patricia J. Gumport (Eds.); The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1999, pp. v+ 484, Price US $24.95 paper pp. 98-99

J. D. Owen

Teaching economics to undergraduates: Alternatives to chalk and talk: William E. Becker and Michael Watts (Eds.); Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, 1998, pp. xvi+ 274, Price US $90.00 cloth pp. 99-100

D. Frey

Education for All? The MONEE Project Regional Monitoring Report: No. 5, Florence, Italy; UNICEF International Child Development Centre, 1998, pp. vii+135, Price: $20.00 (paper) pp. 100-101

Melissa Binder