Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 19, issue 4, 2000

Educational finance to support high learning standards: a synthesis pp. 305-318

James Wyckoff and Michelle Naples

Accounting for the effects of increased high school graduation expectations on pupil performance and resource allocation: results from New York State pp. 319-331

David H. Monk, Samid Hussain and William Miles

Diplomas for learning, not seat time: the impacts of New York Regents examinations pp. 333-349

John H. Bishop, Joan Y. Moriarty and Ferran Mane

The missing link: an econometric analysis on the impact of curriculum standards on student achievement pp. 351-361

Nicola A. Alexander

Financing higher student performance standards: the case of New York State pp. 363-386

William Duncombe and John Yinger

Improving teacher preparation and selection: lessons from the Pennsylvania experience pp. 387-415

Robert Strauss, Lori R. Bowes, Mindy Marks and Mark R. Plesko

Does fiscal dependency matter? Aid elasticities for dependent and independent school districts pp. 417-429

Thomas Downes

Restructuring special education funding in New York to promote the objective of high learning standards for all students pp. 431-445

Thomas B. Parrish

Market Approaches to Education: Vouchers and School Choice;: Elchanan Cohn (Ed.); Pergamon Press, New York, 1997, vi + 531 pages, cloth, $96.00 pp. 458-459

Cecilia Elena Rouse

Organization Matters: Agency Problems in Health and Education in Latin America;: William D. Savedoff (Ed.); Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., 1998, 285 pages, paper, $21.50 pp. 459-460

Patrick McEwan

Education at a Glance--OECD Indicators 1998 Edition;: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris, 1998, 432 pages, soft cover, $49.00 (FF 295; DM 88) pp. 460-461

Elchanan Cohn

Handbook for the College Admissions Profession;: Claire C. Swann and Stanley E. Henderson (Eds.); Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1998, ix +300 pages, cloth, $69.50 pp. 461-462

Andrew Roth

The Means of our Salvation: Public Education in Brazil, 1930-1995;: David N. Plank; Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1996, xiii +208 pages, cloth, $59.00 pp. 462-463

Djehane Hosni

Higher Education Management (Vol. 10.2); Edited by Maurice Kogan; Paris; 1998; 137 pp; Price: US $25.00 (paper) pp. 463-465

Franklin G. MixonJr.

The Charter School Challenge: Avoiding the Pitfalls, Fulfilling the Promise;: Bryan C. Hassel; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1999, v+191 pages, cloth, $39.95 pp. 465-466

Malcolm Getz

Fixing Urban Schools;: Paul T. Hill and Mary Beth Celio; Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1998, vii+115 pages, paper, US $11.95 pp. 466-467

David Brasington

How the Japanese Learn to Work;: second edition. By Ronald Dore and Mari Sako; Routledge, New York, NY, 1998, xix+190 pp, $85.00 (cloth) $27.99 (paper) pp. 467-468

William L. Weber

School Choice in Chile: Two Decades of Educational Reform;: by Varun Gauri; University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1998, xi+147 pp, index, $45.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper) pp. 468-469

David N. Plank

Education Statistics of the United States;: by Mark S. Littman and Deirdre A. Gaquin; Bernan Press, Washington, DC, 1999, vi+643 pp, $65.00 (paper) pp. 469-470

Brian O. Brent

Post-Compulsory Education for Disabled People;: OECD, Paris, 1997, 88 pp, US$19 (paper) pp. 470-471

Samuel Cooper

Volume 19, issue 3, 2000

Inter-gender differentials between college students' earnings expectations and the experience of recent graduates pp. 229-243

Manuel J. Carvajal, David Bendana, Alireza Bozorgmanesh, Miguel A. Castillo, Katayoun Pourmasiha, Priya Rao and Juan A. Torres

District variations in educational resources and student outcomes pp. 245-259

James D. Unnever, Allan C. Kerckhoff and Timothy J. Robinson

A panel analysis of student mathematics achievement in the US in the 1990s: does increasing the amount of time in learning activities affect math achievement? pp. 261-277

Tevfik Aksoy and Charles Link

The returns to individual and college characteristics: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth pp. 279-289

James Monks

Rates of return to education in Botswana pp. 291-300

Happy Kufigwa Siphambe

Learning from School Choice; Paul E. Peterson and Bryan C. Hassel (Eds.); Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1998, 442+ xii pages, cloth, US$52.95 pp. 302-303

Elchanan Cohn

Volume 19, issue 2, 2000

Introduction to special issue on overschooling pp. 129-130

Hessel Oosterbeek

Over-education and earnings: where are we, where should we go? pp. 131-147

Joop Hartog

Overeducation in the labor market: a meta-analysis pp. 149-158

Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Incidence and wage effects of overschooling and underschooling in Hong Kong pp. 159-168

Elchanan Cohn and Ying Chu Ng

Premiums and penalties for surplus and deficit education: Evidence from the United States and Germany pp. 169-178

Mary Daly, Felix Buchel and Greg Duncan

The incidence and effects of overeducation in the U.K. graduate labour market pp. 179-198

Peter Dolton and Anna Vignoles

The role of human capital and technological change in overeducation pp. 199-206

M. Mendes de Oliveira, M. C. Santos and B. F. Kiker

The training of school-leavers: Complementarity or substitution? pp. 207-217

M. S. M. van Smoorenburg and Rolf Van der Velden

The great Canadian training robbery: evidence on the returns to educational mismatch pp. 219-227

Shaun Vahey

Volume 19, issue 1, 1999

The effects of ability grouping on student achievement and resource allocation in secondary schools pp. 1-15

Julian R. Betts and Jamie L. Shkolnik

How should we measure the effect of ability grouping on student performance? pp. 17-20

Daniel Rees, D. J. Brewer and L. M. Argys

Key difficulties in identifying the effects of ability grouping on student achievement pp. 21-26

Julian R. Betts and Jamie L. Shkolnik

The ineffectiveness of school inputs: a product of misspecification? pp. 27-45

James Dewey, Thomas Husted and Lawrence Kenny

Does the return to university quality differ for transfer students and direct attendees? pp. 47-61

Michael J. Hilmer

Schooling of girls and boys in a West African country: the effects of parental education, income, and household structure pp. 63-87

Peter Glick and David Sahn

Spending, school structure, and public education quality. Evidence from California pp. 89-106

Michael Marlow

Nonoptimal use of nontraditional education pp. 107-111

Marshall J. Horton

Family background and returns to schooling in Taiwan pp. 113-125

Jin-Tan Liu, James Hammitt and Chyongchiou Jeng Lin

Volume 18, issue 4, 1999

Education and employment status: a test of the strong screening hypothesis in Italy pp. 397-404

Sarah Brown and John Sessions

A comparison of conventional linear regression methods and neural networks for forecasting educational spending pp. 405-415

Bruce D. Baker and Craig E. Richards

Trends in the payoff to academic and occupation-specific skills: the short and medium run returns to academic and vocational high school courses for non-college-bound students pp. 417-437

Ferran Mane

On the distributional impact of public education: evidence from Greece pp. 439-452

Panos Tsakloglou and Manos Antoninis

Graduate education and employee performance: evidence from military personnel pp. 453-463

William R. Bowman and Stephen L. Mehay

Some new evidence of the character of competition among higher education institutions pp. 465-470

Robert F. Allen and Jianshou Shen

Volume 18, issue 3, 1999

High school employment, high school curriculum, and post-school wages pp. 291-309

Audrey Light

Community effects and desired schooling of parents and children in Mexico pp. 311-325

Melissa Binder

Education costs and institutional structure pp. 327-345

Stuart Landon

How similar are pay structures in 'similar' departments of economics? pp. 347-360

James F. Ragan , John T. Warren and Bernt Bratsberg

Local public choice of school spending: disaggregating the demand function for educational services pp. 361-373

Torberg Falch and Jorn Rattso

An event history model of student departure pp. 375-390

S. L. DesJardins, D. A. Ahlburg and Brian McCall

Volume 18, issue 2, 1999

Biases in twin estimates of the return to schooling pp. 143-148

David Neumark

Further estimates of the economic return to schooling from a new sample of twins pp. 149-157

Cecilia Elena Rouse

"Ability" biases in schooling returns and twins: a test and new estimates pp. 159-167

Jere Behrman and Mark Rosenzweig

Double trouble: on the value of twins-based estimation of the return to schooling pp. 169-182

John Bound and Gary Solon

Schooling indicators during Mexico's "Lost decade" pp. 183-199

Melissa Binder

Central city school administrative policy: systematically passing undeserving students pp. 201-212

David Brasington

Distributive effect of state subsidy to undergraduate education: the case of Illinois pp. 213-221

Seong Soo Lee, Rati Ram and Charles W. Smith

What education production functions really show: a positive theory of education expenditures pp. 223-239

Lant Pritchett and Deon Filmer

Functional form and the estimated effects of school resources pp. 241-252

David Figlio

Tropics, income, and school life expectancy: an intercountry study pp. 253-258

Rati Ram

Testing for sample selection in the Milwaukee school choice experiment pp. 259-267

Dan D. Goldhaber, Dominic J. Brewer, Eric Eide and Daniel Rees

Economies of scale and scope in higher education: a case of comprehensive universities pp. 269-277

Rajindar K. Koshal and Manjulika Koshal

University admissions policy in a developing country: evidence from the University of the West Indies pp. 279-289

Sudhanshu Handa and Peter-John Gordon

Volume 18, issue 1, 1999

The Dallas school accountability and incentive program: an evaluation of its impacts on student outcomes pp. 1-16

Helen Ladd

Information and inner city educational attainment pp. 17-30

Jens Ludwig

Cyclical economic conditions and school attendance in Costa Rica pp. 31-50

Edward Funkhouser

Managerial tenure under private and government ownership: the case of higher education pp. 51-58

Franklin Mixon and Russell W. McKenzie

Grades and student evaluations of teachers pp. 59-63

Anthony Krautmann and William Sander

Graduate training and the early career productivity of Ph.D. economists pp. 65-77

Thomas Buchmueller, Jeff Dominitz and W. Lee Hansen

What determines when undergraduates complete their theses? Evidence from two economics departments pp. 79-88

Curt Lofgren and Henry Ohlsson

The variation in teachers' grading practices: causes and consequences pp. 89-106

Hans Bonesronning

Using variation in schooling availability to estimate educational returns for Honduras pp. 107-116

Arjun Bedi and Noel Gaston

Modeling the College Application Decision Process in a Land-Grant University pp. 117-132

Stephen L. DesJardins, Halil Dundar and Darwin D. Hendel

What Do Educational Credentials Signal and Why Do Employers Value Credentials? pp. 133-141

Jeremy Arkes