Economics of Education Review

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Volume 13, issue 4, 1994

Education, human capital enhancement and economic development: Comparison between Korea and Taiwan pp. 275-288

Maw-Lin Lee, Ben-Chieh Liu and Ping Wang

Efficiency variation among the Norwegian High Schools: Consequences of equalization policy pp. 289-304

Hans Bonesronning and Jorn Rattso

Wage employment, earnings and returns to schooling for men and women in Turkey pp. 305-320

Aysıt Tansel

Education and earnings in Paraguay pp. 321-327

George Psacharopoulos, Eduardo Velez and Harry Patrinos

The determinants of out-of-state enrollments in higher education: A tobit analysis pp. 329-335

Franklin Mixon and Yu Hsing

Education and welfare incidence among black women: Changes over time pp. 337-353

John D. Owen

Equity and Efficiency of State Lotteries pp. 355-362

Samuel Cooper and Elchanan Cohn

Response to review essay: `Equity and efficiency of state lotteries' pp. 363-364

Mary O. Borg

Response to review essay: `Equity and efficiency of state lotteries' pp. 365-366

Paul Mason

$59.95/clothWalter M. Haney, George F. Madaus and Robert Lyons, The Fractured Marketplace for Standardized Testing, Kluwer Academic (1993), p. xiv + 347 pp. 367-369

Richard Phelps

US$ 10.95 (paper)William S. Saint, Universities in Africa: Strategies for Stabilization and Revitalization World Bank, Technical Paper Number 194, The World Bank, Washington, DC (1992), p. xxiv + 140 pp. 369-369

Dan S. Thakur

Price: U.S.$17.00 (paper)Rosslyn M. Smith, Patricia Byrd, Gayle I. Nelson, Ralph Pat Barrett and Janet C. Constantinides, Crossing Pedagogical Oceans: International Teaching Assistants in U.S. Undergraduate Education, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 8, The George Washington University, School of Education and Human Development, Washington, D.C. (1992), p. xix + 122 pp. 369-370

William L. Weber

Volume 13, issue 3, 1994

Modeling institutional production of higher education pp. 197-213

Robert C. Dolan and Robert M. Schmidt

Math--time capital matters: A cross-country analysis pp. 215-226

Kenneth Lewis and Laurence Seidman

How widespread are sheepskin returns to education in the U.S.? pp. 227-234

John Heywood

Federal credit programs and cointegration: The case of student loans pp. 235-242

Thomas Hungerford and Wayne Upshaw

Modelling occupational choice in blue-collar labor markets pp. 243-250

Mary L. Williams and Karen Leppel

Gender inequality in female-dominated occupation: The earnings of male and female teachers pp. 251-264

Richard R. Verdugo and Jeffrey M. Schneider

The relation between a university's football record and the size of its applicant pool pp. 265-270

Robert Murphy and Gregory A. Trandel

Educational performance of the poor: Lessons from rural Northeast Brazil: by Ralph W. Harbison and Eric A. Hanushek. New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank. 1992. pp. 362 + xiv. price: US$39.95 pp. 271-271

George Psacharopoulos

Women's education in developing countries: Barriers, benefits and policies: by Elizabeth M. King and M. Anne Hill, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. pp. v + 337. price: US@22.95 (cloth) pp. 271-272

Julia A. Heath

Literacy in the United States: Readers and reading since 1880: by Carl F. Kaestle, Helen Damon-Moore, Lawrence C. Stedman, Katherine Tinsley and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1991. pp vii, 338. ISBN 0-300-04946-3. Hardback $35.00 pp. 272-273

Robert Margo

Volume 13, issue 2, 1994

Can education do it alone? pp. 97-108

Henry Levin and Carolyn Kelley

A benefit-cost analysis of investment in college education in the United States: 1969-1985 pp. 109-123

Elchanan Cohn and Woodrow Huches

Subject area preparation of secondary mathematics and science teachers and student achievement pp. 125-145

David H. Monk

Economics, organizations, and learning: Research directions for the economics of education pp. 147-162

Stephen A. Hoenack

The determinants of post-immigration investments in education pp. 163-177

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

Reading the report cards: What do "state of achievement" reports tell us about American education? -- review essay pp. 179-193

Herbert J. Kiesling

The national collegiate athletic association: A study in cartel behavior: Arthur Fleisher III, Brian Goff and Robert Tollison. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. 190 pp. price: $24.95 (cloth) pp. 195-196

Robert L. Crist

Volume 13, issue 1, 1994

Do school and teacher characteristics matter? Evidence from High School and Beyond pp. 1-17

Ronald Ehrenberg and Dominic J. Brewer

Education and the labor market in Uruguay pp. 19-27

George Psacharopoulos and Eduardo Velez

Expectations, undergraduate debt and the decision to attend graduate school: a simultaneous model of student choice pp. 29-41

William C. Weiler

Time-denominated achievement cost curves, learning differences and individualized instruction pp. 43-53

Andrew W. Bacdayan

Who defaults on student loans? Findings from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study pp. 55-68

Mark Dynarski

An econometric analysis of teacher mobility pp. 69-77

E. Osei Bempah, Michael S. Kaylen, Donald D. Osburn and Robert J. Birkenholz

A measure of equality of choice in higher education pp. 79-88

Gerald W. Sazama

Volume 12, issue 4, 1993

Principals and student outcomes: Evidence from U.S. high schools pp. 281-292

Dominic J. Brewer

A cost-benefit analysis of educational investment in Venezuela: 1989 update pp. 293-298

Ariel Fiszbein and George Psacharopoulos

Overeducation and the returns to enterprise-related schooling pp. 299-309

Wim Groot

Tuition and enrollment yield at selective liberal arts colleges pp. 311-324

Jeffrey Parker and Jeffrey Summers

Rates of return to investment in education in former Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s by region pp. 325-343

Milena Bevc

The Alchian-Allen effect in higher education: Public versus private enrollment pp. 345-349

Charles Kroncke and Rand Ressler

Bell's paradox under different capital market regimes pp. 351-358

Johan Moonwon Kang

In pursuit of the PhD: a review essay: In Pursuit of the PhD by and. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. xx + 442. $35.00 (cloth) pp. 359-365

Deirdre McCloskey

Better schooling or the children of poverty: Alternatives to conventional wisdom: By and. Berkeley: McCutchan Publishing Corporation. viii + 359 pp. Price: $32.00 (cloth) pp. 367-368

Lynn Ilon

Learning work: A critical pedagogy of work education: By et al. New York, NY: Bergin & Garvey, 1991. 199 pp. Price: U.S. $45.00 (cloth), $15.95 (paper) pp. 367-367

Curtis Miles

The economic future of American families: Income and wealth trends: By and. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1991. xiv + 132 pp. Price: $31.50 (cloth), $15.25 (paper) pp. 368-369

McKinley Blackburn

Public school finance programs of the United States and Canada, 1990-1991: Volumes One and Two. Compiled and edited by,, and. Albany, NY: American Education Finance Association and Center for the Study of the States, The Nelson A. Rockefellar Institute of Government, State University of New York, 1992. x + 667 pp. Price: $40.00 (paper) pp. 369-370

Elchanan Cohn

The economic value of education: Studies in the economics of education: Edited by. Hants (U.K.) and Brookfield, Vermont (U.S.A.), Edward Elgar, 1992. xv + 537 pp. Price: $149.95 (cloth) pp. 370-370

Elchanan Cohn

Volume 12, issue 3, 1993

SAT scores, journalism and public policy pp. 195-196

Philip Meyer

Understanding state variations in SAT scores pp. 197-202

Amy E. Graham and Thomas Husted

Using scholastic aptitude test scores as indicators of state educational performance pp. 203-211

Mark Dynarski and Philip Gleason

Postsecondary education as triage: Returns to academic and technical programs pp. 213-232

Kevin Hollenbeck

Job satisfaction, salaries and unions: The determination of university faculty compensation pp. 233-243

Jane H. Lillydahl and Larry D. Singell

Rates of return to education in Brazil: Do labor market conditions matter? pp. 245-256

Peter Griffin and Alejandra Cox Edwards

The demand for higher education in Puerto Rico pp. 257-265

Jonathan King

Show me what I should know! Active, contextual learning on the job -- A review essay pp. 267-270

Craig Randall Landgren

Management information and performance indicators in higher educatio1n: An international issue: Edited by Filp J.R.C. Dochy, Mien S.R. Segers and Wynand H.F.W. Wijnen. Maastricht: Van Goreum, 1989. VIII + 140 pp. Price: 35 Dfl. (paper) pp. 271-272

Dieter Timmermann

Windows on Japanese education: Edited by Edward R. Beauchamp. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. 334 pp. Price: U.S. $55.00 (cloth) pp. 272-273

Toshiaki Tachibanaki

Book Review pp. 273-273

Mary McKeown

Who will teach? Policies that matter: Richard J. Murnane, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett, James J. Kemple and Randall J. Olsen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. XII + 187 p pp. 273-274

Hope Corman

The economics of comparable worth: Mark R. Killingsworth. Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute. 306 pp. Price: U.S.$13.95 (paper), $22.95 (cloth) pp. 274-275

Ethel B. Jones

Women, work and school. Occupational segregation and the role of education: Edited by Leslie R. Wolfe. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991. xi + 25 pp. Price: $32.50 (cloth) pp. 275-276

J. R. Hough

Information technologies in education: The quest for quality software: Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). Paris: OECD, 1989. 125 pp. Price: U.S.$17.00 (paper) pp. 276-277

Michael G. Farringdon

Computer assisted learning: Selected proceed-ings from the cal'89 symposium: Edited by Michael Kibby. New York: Pergamon Press, 1990. 288 pp. Price: U.S.$105.00 (boards) pp. 276-276

Michael G. Farringdon

Understanding educational evaluation: Nigel Norris. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. 169 pp. Price: $35.00 pp. 277-277

Daniel Stufflebeam and Arlen Gullickson

International comparisons of vocational education and training for intermediate skills: Edited by Paul Ryan. London: The Falmer Press, 1991. Price: U.S. $70.00 (cloth), $29.00 (paper) pp. 278-278

Curtis Miles

Volume 12, issue 2, 1993

Why don't state incomes converge? Effective worker pay does not differ among states pp. 105-115

Julian L. Simon

Cost-sharing of general and specific training with depreciation of human capital pp. 117-124

Eva Pichler

Further tests of screening on education and observed ability pp. 125-136

W. Norton Grubb

Is it a good investment to attend an elite private college? pp. 137-151

Marc Fox

A multinomial logit analysis of teenage fertility and high school completion pp. 153-164

David Ribar

On the determination of the critical level of market concentration in education pp. 165-169

Melvin V. Borland and Roy Howsen

Equality and fiscal equity in school finance reform pp. 171-176

Kathy J. Hayes, Daniel Slottje and Lori Taylor

Does big-time success in football or basketball affect SAT scores? pp. 177-181

Irvin Tucker and Louis Amato

Research in teacher education: International perspectives: Edited by Richard P. Tisher and Marvin F. Wideen. London: The Falmer Press, 1990. 287 pp. [UK pound]25 (cloth), [UK pound]10.95 (paper) pp. 183-184

Peter King

Student loans: The next steps: By Nicholas Barr. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989. xiii + 87 pp. U.K. [UK pound]6.95 (paper) pp. 183-183

William L. Weber

Reviews of national policies for education: Higher education in California: Paris: OECD, 1990. 167 pp. $30.00 (paper) pp. 184-185

Kathy Reeves

Characteristics of stayers, movers, and leavers: Results from the teacher followup survey, 1988-1989: By Sharon A. Bobbitt, Elizabeth Faupel and Shelley Burns. E.D. Tabs, NCES 91-128. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1991. VII + 57 pp. No. price listed (paper) pp. 185-187

Elchanan Cohn

Keeping college affordable: Government and educational opportunity: By Michael S. McPherson and Morton O. Schapiro. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1991 pp. 187-188

Eric Hanushek

Financing higher education in a global economy: Edited by Richard E. Anderson and Joel W. Meyerson. New York: American Council on Education/Macmillan, 1990. 152 pp. $27.95 (cloth) pp. 188-188

Morton Owen Schapiro

Managing higher education: By David E. Bland. London: Cassell Educational Limited, 1990. 101 pp. $19.95 pp. 189-189

Morton Owen Schapiro

Volume 12, issue 1, 1993

The economic returns to college major, quality and performance: A multilevel analysis of recent graduates pp. 1-19

Russell W. Rumberger and Scott L. Thomas

Sex differences in the academic labor market in the affirmative action era pp. 21-43

Michael Ransom and Sharon Bernstein Megdal

Production efficiency in elementary education: The case of Maine public schools pp. 45-57

Steven Deller and Edward Rudnicki

Economic determinants of academic failure and school desertion in the Guatemala highlands pp. 59-70

Manuel J. Carvajal, F. Kay Morris and Lillian M. Davenport

Changing rates of return to education over time: A Korean case study pp. 71-80

Jai-Kyung Ryoo, Young-Sook Nam and Martin Carnoy

Choosing the right pond: College choice and the quest for status pp. 81-88

Will Carrington Heath

Evidence on screening: a comment pp. 89-90

Hessel Oosterbeek

Price and quality in higher education: By J L. G. Washington, DC: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990. 121 pp. U.S.$7.00 pp. 91-91

Morton Owen Schapiro

Public school choice: Current issues/future prospects: By M L. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Technomic Publishing Company, 1990. 198 pp. U.S.$24.00 (paper) pp. 92-92

James R. Rinehart

Human capital and America's future: Edited by D W. H and L M. S. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 402 pp pp. 93-94

Donald E. Frey

Essays on poverty, equity and growth: Edited by G P. Oxford: Pergamon Press for The World Bank, 1991. pp. x + 404. U.S.$59.00 (cloth) pp. 93-93

Tim Perri

The politics of nonformal education in Latin America: By C A T. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. 180 pp. U.S.$42.95 (cloth) pp. 94-95

Eduardo Velez

Educating for excellence: Improving quality and productivity in the 90s: By J.H.U. B, and J C. New York: Auburn House, 1991. 167 pp. $37.95 (cloth) pp. 95-95

Craig R. Landgren

Review of national policies for education: Turkey: Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 1989. 113 pp. U.S.$20.00 pp. 96-96

Djehane A. Hosni

Handbook of developmental education: Edited by R M. H. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1990. xvi, 380 pp. U.S.$45 (cloth) pp. 96-97

Curtis Miles

Higher education revenues and expenditures: A study of institutional costs: By K H. Washington, DC: Research Associates of Washington, 1991. pp. xiii + 291. U.S. $40.00 (paper) pp. 97-98

Mary McKeown

Budgeting for higher education: Enigma, paradox, and ritual: ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 4. By D T. L and J W. L. Washington, DC: School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University, 1990. xx + 116 pp. U.S. $17.00 (paper) pp. 98-99

W. Patrick Leonard

The campus green: Fund raising in higher education: ASHE-ERIC Higher Education report no. 1. By B E. B and T R. P. Washington, DC: School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University, 1990. xxi + 128 pp. U.S.$17.OO (paper) pp. 98-98

W. Patrick Leonard

Women's work, education, and family welfare in Peru: Edited by B K. H and S R. K. World Bank discussion papers no. 116. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1991. pp. xvi + 280. U.S.$17.95 (paper) pp. 99-101

David N. Plank

Argentina: Reallocating resources for the improvement of education: A World Bank Country Study. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1991. pp. xiv + 86. U.S.$7.95 (paper) pp. 99-99

David N. Plank