Economics of Education Review

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Volume 17, issue 4, 1998

Does it pay to attend an elite private college? Evidence on the effects of undergraduate college quality on graduate school attendance pp. 371-376

Eric Eide, Dominic J. Brewer and Ronald Ehrenberg

Efficiency differences of finnish senior secondary schools: An application of DEA and Tobit analysis pp. 377-394

Tanja Kirjavainen and Heikki A. Loikkanent

Educational attainments and household characteristics in Tanzania pp. 395-417

Samer Al-Samarrai and Tessa Peasgood

Competition and the quality of public schools pp. 419-427

Thomas Dee

The effect of gender composition of faculty on student retention pp. 429-439

John Robst, Jack Keil and Dean Russo

The college aid quandary: Access, quality, and the federal role: By Lawrence E. Gladieuw and Arthur M. Hauptman. Washington and New York: The Brookings Institution/The College Board, 1995. pp. vii + 97. Price: U.S. $10.95 (paper) pp. 441-441

W. Patrick Leonard

Buying the best: Cost escalation in elite higher education: By Charles Clotfelter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. xi + 303 pp. Price: $29.95 (cloth) pp. 441-442

Michael S. McPherson

Improving the quality of primary education in latin America and the Caribbean -- Toward the 21st Century: Laurence, Wolff, Ernesto Schiefelbein and Jorge Valenzuela. (Washington, D.C.: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 257, 1994). iv + 155 pp. Price: U.S.$10.95 pp. 442-443

Manuel J. Carvajal

Teacher pay and teacher quality: By Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky. Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1997. 184pp. Price: US$15 (paper), $25 (cloth) pp. 443-444

Donald E. Frey

Accelerated schools in action: Lessons from the field: Edited by Christine Finnan, Edward P. St. John, Jane McCarthy, and Simeon P. Slovacek. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1996. ix + 320 pp. Price: $29.95 (paper) pp. 444-445

Dianne L. Taylor

Economic growth: By Robert J. Barro and Xavier Sala-I-Martin. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc. 1995. 539 pp. Price: U.S.$76.31 (cloth) pp. 445-445

David Mitch

International encyclopedia of teaching and teacher education: (Second Edition). Edited by Lorin W. Anderson. Elsevier Science Ltd, 1996. v + 632 pp. Price: U.S. $196.50 pp. 445-446

Margaret Plecki

Volume 17, issue 3, 1998

Health economics and the economics of education: specialization and division of labor* pp. 237-244

Janet Hunt-McCool and Dawn M. Bishop

Health, wealth and happiness: why pursue a higher education? pp. 245-256

Joop Hartog and Hessel Oosterbeek

Education's role in explaining diabetic health investment differentials pp. 257-266

Matthew Kahn

Do those with more formal education have better health insurance opportunities? pp. 267-277

Diane M. Dewar

The effect of endogenous health inputs on the relationship between health and education pp. 279-295

Donna Gilleskie and Amy L. Harrison

Nursing wages and educational credentials: the role of work experience and selectivity bias pp. 297-306

Anabela Botelho, Cheryl Bland Jones and B. F. Kiker

The effect of low birthweight on the school performance and behavior of school-aged children pp. 307-316

Hope Corman and Stephen Chaikind

The effects of schooling and cognitive ability on smoking and marijuana use by young adults pp. 317-324

William Sander

Gender and life-cycle differences in the impact of schooling on chronic disease in Jamaica* pp. 325-336

Sudhanshu Handa

The demand for medical education: an augmented human capital approach pp. 337-347

Robert Quinn and Jamie Price

Parents' schooling and the correlation between education and frailty pp. 349-358

J. Paul Leigh

The financing and provisioning of education and health services in developing countries: review article pp. 359-362

Julia A. Heath

Volume 17, issue 2, 1998

Benefit-Cost Analysis of Foreign Student Flows from Developing Countries: The Case of Postgraduate Education pp. 117-126

Chris Heaton and David Throsby

An Empirical Investigation of Teacher Attrition pp. 127-136

Todd Stinebrickner

The 1995 Ratings of Doctoral Programs: A Hedonic Model pp. 137-148

Ronald Ehrenberg and Peter J. Hurst

The Effect of University Host Community Size on State Growth pp. 149-158

Richard Phelps

Education and Growth in East Asia pp. 159-172

Walter W. McMahon

Changing Returns to Education in Spain during the 1980s pp. 173-178

Luis-Eduardo Vila and Jose-Gines Mora

Gender, Race and Ph.D. Completion in Natural Science and Engineering pp. 179-188

Joe G. Baker

On the Weak vs Strong Version of the Screening Hypothesis: A Re-Examination of the P-Test for the U.K pp. 189-192

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Hedley Rees

Why Are Women Underrepresented in Public School Administration? An Empirical Test of Promotion Discrimination pp. 193-204

Lois Joy

School Characteristics and the Demand for College pp. 205-210

Trisha Bezmen and Craig Depken

The Demand for Higher Education in Belgium pp. 211-218

I. Duchesne and W. Nonneman

Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Postsecondary Financial Aid Awards pp. 219-222

Milla D. Boschung, Deanna L. Sharpe and Mohamed Abdel-Ghany

Volume 17, issue 1, 1998

Daycare Quality and Regulation: A Queuing-Theoretic Approach pp. 1-13

James Mulligan and Saul Hoffman

Measuring Educational Attainment: The Old and the New Census and BLS Taxonomies pp. 15-30

Manuelita Ureta and Finis Welch

Estimating Returns to Schooling: When Does the Career Begin? pp. 31-45

Audrey Light

An Analysis of Student Enrollment Demand pp. 47-54

James Wetzel, Dennis O'Toole and Steven Peterson

Sex Matters Less for Younger Faculty: Evidence of Disaggregate Pay Disparities from the 1988 and 1993 NCES Surveys pp. 55-71

Robert K. Toutkoushian

The Role of the Option Value of College Attendance in College Major Choice pp. 73-82

Eric Eide and Geetha Waehrer

Wage Gaps Between the Public and Private Sectors in Spain pp. 83-92

Gerard Lassibille

Economic and Cultural Impediments to University Education in Spain pp. 93-103

Beatriz Gonzalez Lopez-Valcarcel and Delia Davila Quintana

Competition in the Retail College Textbook Market pp. 105-115

John Siegfried and Christopher Latta

Volume 16, issue 4, 1997

A utility model for teaching load decisions in academic departments pp. 349-365

William F. Massy and Robert Zemsky

Norms as a tool of analysis in the economics of education: A contribution of Massy and Zemsky pp. 367-370

Wenli Li and Stephen A. Hoenack

The changing structure of teacher compensation, 1970-1994 pp. 371-384

Hamilton Lankford and James Wyckoff

Class size and achievement in introductory economics: Evidence from the TUCE III data pp. 385-394

Peter Kennedy and John Siegfried

Private education in a poor country: The case of urban Bolivia pp. 395-406

George Psacharopoulos, Carlos R. Arieira and Robert Mattson

Attendance, schooling quality, and the demand for education of Mexican Americans, African Americans, and non-Hispanic whites pp. 407-418

Marie T. Mora

The impact of college timing on earnings pp. 419-423

James Monks

Perceived rates of return to higher education in Cyprus pp. 425-430

Maria Eliophotou Menon

Measuring the impact of competition in local government education markets on the cognitive achievement of students pp. 431-441

Blair R. Zanzig

The returns to education in Slovenia pp. 443-449

Tine Stanovnik

International encyclopedia of economics of education: 2nd edition. Edited by. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1995. pp. xi + 494. Price: U.S. $135.00 (cloth) pp. 451-452

Elchanan Cohn

Volume 16, issue 3, 1997

New vocationalism in the United States: Potential problems and outlook pp. 201-212

Charles S. Benson

What difference does it make if school and work are connected? Evidence on co-operative education in the United States pp. 213-229

David Stern, Neal Finkelstein, Miguel Urquiola and Helen Cagampang

The returns to education in the sub-baccalaureate labor market, 1984-1990 pp. 231-245

W. Norton Grubb

The great work dilemma: Education, employment, and wages in the new global economy pp. 247-254

Martin Carnoy

Schools and labor market outcomes pp. 255-269

David L. Crawford, Amy W. Johnson and Anita A. Summers

Health and schooling: Evidence and policy implications for developing countries pp. 271-282

Joao Batista Gomes-Neto, Eric Hanushek, Raimundo Helio Leite and Roberto Claudio Frota-Bezzera

Value-added indicators of school performance: A primer pp. 283-301

Robert H. Meyer

Raising school productivity: An x-efficiency approach pp. 303-311

Henry Levin

Estimation of a frontier production function for the South Carolina educational process pp. 313-327

Samuel T. Cooper and Elchanan Cohn

School finance and school choice in the Netherlands pp. 329-335

Jozef M. M. Ritzen, Jan van Dommelen and Frans J. De Vijlder

Tuition and financial aid in higher education: The case of California pp. 337-343

Frederick Balderston

Something borrowed, something learned? The transatlantic market in education and training: Edited by and. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1993. pp. v + 261. Price: U.S. $36.95 (cloth) pp. 345-346

Lynn Ilon

The economics of higher education: An analysis of taxes versus fees:. England: Edward Elgar, 1995. pp. xiv + 152. Price: U.S. $69.95 (cloth) pp. 345-345

Morton Owen Schapiro

Recent developments in the economics of education: Edited by and. England, Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1994. pp. v + 653. Price: U.S. $187.95 (cloth) pp. 346-347

Eric Hanushek

Investment in women's human capital: Edited by. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 461 pp. Price: U.S. $22.95 (paper) pp. 346-346

M. Anne Hill

Public school finance programs of the United States and Canada, 1993-1994: two volumes. Compiled and edited by and. Albany: American Education Finance Association and Center for the Study of the States, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York, 1995. pp. ix + 787. Price: U.S. $60.00 (soft cover) pp. 347-348

Elchanan Cohn

Hierarchical linear models: Applications and data analysis methods: and. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. (ISBN 0-8039-4627-9), pp. xvi + 265. Price: U.S. $45.00 (cloth) pp. 348-348

Russell W. Rumberger

Volume 16, issue 2, 1997

Labor market conditions and the high school dropout rate: Evidence from New York State pp. 103-109

Daniel Rees and Naci Mocan

Overeducation and undereducation: Evidence for Portugal pp. 111-125

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

School quality and cognitive achievement production: A case study for rural Pakistan pp. 127-142

Jere Behrman, Shahrukh Khan, David Ross and Richard Sabot

Unified salary schedule and student SAT scores: Adverse effects of adverse selection in the market for secondary school teachers pp. 143-153

Lawrence Southwick and Indermit S. Gill

Evaluating school facility capacity and attendance boundaries using a large-scale assignment algorithm pp. 155-161

Rodolpho Elizondo, E. Andrew Boyd and Maxwell Beauregard

Education and unemployment duration pp. 163-170

Juha Kettunen

High school youths' dropout and re-enrollment behavior pp. 171-186

Hwei-Lin Chuang

School to work: Research on programs in the United States: and. Washington, DC: The Falmer Press, 1995. pp. v + 172. Price: U.S. $24.95 (paper) pp. 187-188

Samuel Cooper

Educating economists: Edited by and. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. pp. x + 294. Price: U.S.$17.95 (paper) pp. 187-187

Julia A. Heath

Managing educational property: A handbook for schools, colleges and universities: Edited by and. Suffolk, Great Britain: The Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, 1993. pp. xiv + 237. Price: U.S.$85.00 (cloth) pp. 188-189

W. Patrick Leonard

Schools make a difference: Lessons learned from a 10-year study of school effects: and. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993. pp. vii + 272. Price: U.S.$34.00 (cloth) pp. 189-189

Dominic J. Brewer

Priorities and strategies for education: A World Bank review: Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1995. pp. xv + 173. Price: U.S. $11.95 (paper) pp. 189-190

Bradley Ewing

Education, technology and industrial performance in Europe, 1850-1939: Edited by and. U.K.: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1993. pp. vii + 302. Price: U.S.$59.95 (cloth) pp. 190-191

Brendan A. Rapple

From parent to child: and. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. pp. vii + 313. Price: U.S.$29.95 (paper) pp. 191-192

Diane Macunovich

Volume 16, issue 1, 1997

An application of a structural model of school demand and supply to evaluate alternative designs of voucher education systems pp. 1-14

Stephen A. Hoenack

Charter Schools: A Viable Public School Choice Option? pp. 15-23

Terry G. Geske, Douglas R. Davis and Patricia L. Hingle

A mathematical analysis of the learning production process and a model for determining what matters in education pp. 25-37

Andrew W. Bacdayan

Estimating the impact of peer group effects on socioeconomic outcomes: Does the distribution of peer group characteristics matter? pp. 39-43

Paul Glewwe

Schooling and frailty among seniors pp. 45-57

J. Paul Leigh and Rachna Dhir

Does community college attendance provide a strategic path to a higher quality education? pp. 59-68

Michael J. Hilmer

Trends in the quantities of education: A pictorial essay pp. 69-80

Julian L. Simon and Rebecca Boggs

Rural wages and returns to education: Differences between whites, blacks, and American Indians pp. 81-96

Jean Kimmel

Mongolia: Financing education during economic transition:. World Bank Discussion Papers No. 226. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1994. pp. xvi + 96. Price: U.S.$7.95 pp. 97-97

D. Hosni

Schooling and cognitive achievements of children in Morocco: Can the government improve outcomes?: and. World Bank Discussion Papers No. 264. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1994. pp. ix + 68. Price: U.S.$7.95 pp. 97-98

D. Hosni

School quality, achievement bias, and dropout behaviour in Egypt: and. Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper No. 107. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1994. pp. xi + 36. Price: U.S.$6.95 pp. 98-98

D. Hosni

A lesson in school reform from Great Britain: and. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1992. pp. vi + 50. Price: U.S.$6.95 (paper) pp. 98-99

Edwin G. West

Rethinking school choice: Limits of the market metaphor:. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. pp. xiv + 277. Price: U.S.$24.95 (cloth) pp. 99-99

Edwin G. West

Financing universities in developing countries: and. Washington, DC: The Falmer Press, 1995. pp. v + 189. Price: U.S.$17.42 (paper) pp. 100-101

Indermit S. Gill

Literacy, economy and society: (OECD). Paris, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and Minister of Industry, Canada, 1995. 199 pp. Price: U.S.$40.00 (paper) pp. 101-102

Mary P. McKeown