Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

Current editor(s): E. Cohn

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Volume 8, issue 4, 1989

Schooling as experimentation: a reappraisal of the postsecondary dropout phenomenon pp. 305-312

Charles Manski

The pension subsidy of educational inequality pp. 313-321

Cheryl Duncan and Michael Lovell

Postsecondary technical education, performance and employee development: A survey of employers pp. 323-333

Elizabeth T. Hill

Could teacher grading practices account for unexplained variation in school achievements? pp. 335-343

Claude Montmarquette and Sophie Mahseredjian

Academic research productivity, department size and organization: Further results pp. 345-352

John M. Jordan, Mark Meador and Stephen J. K. Walters

Earnings and education in Argentina: an analysis of the 1985 Buenos Aires Household Survey pp. 353-365

Bernardo Kugler and George Psacharopoulos

Altruism in the market for giving and receiving: A case of higher education pp. 367-376

Jang H. Yoo and William B. Harrison

The educational excellence movement: Politics and impact. An essay review pp. 377-381

Allan Odden

National Assessment of Vocational Education: Testimony before the House Education and Labour Committee March 7, 1989 pp. 383-392

John G. Wirt, Lana Muraskin, Robert Meyer and David Goodwin

The Legal Structure of Collective Bargaining in Education: Kenneth H. Ostrander. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987. 147 pp. price: U.S.$35.00 (cloth) pp. 393-393

Mollie H. Bowers

Teacher politics: The influence of unions: Maurice R. Berube. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1988. 175 pp. price: $37.95 pp. 394-394

Mollie H. Bowers

Volume 8, issue 3, 1989

Investing in people: Schooling in low income countries pp. 219-223

Theodore Schultz

Time trends of the returns to education: Cross-national evidence pp. 225-231

George Psacharopoulos

Labor market experience of teenagers with and without high school diplomas* pp. 233-246

David Stern, IL-Woo Paik, James S. Catterali and Yoshi-Fumi Nakata

Financing public education: The Canadian way pp. 247-253

Anne L. Jefferson

Economic issues involving property rights to school attendance pp. 255-262

James Wetzel

Returns to education, sectoral pay differentials and determinants in Kuwait pp. 263-276

Sulayman S. Al-Qudsi

A flexible approach to modelling enrollment choice behavior pp. 277-283

William C. Weiler

A note on the use of earning functions and human capital theory in assessing special education pp. 285-290

Darrell R. Lewis, Robert H. Bruininks, Martha Thurlow and Kevin McGrew

The education of poor and minority children. A world bibliography supplement 1979-1985: Meyer Weinberg. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986. 849 pp. U.S. $75.00 pp. 291-292

Don Davies

The contributions of the social sciences to educational policy and practice: 1965-1985: Edited by Jane Hannaway and Marlaine E. Lockhead. Berkeley: McCutchan Publishing Company, 1986. 244 pp. U.S.$22.00 (cloth) pp. 292-292

Bettye MacPhail-Wilcox

Academic women: Working towards equality: Angela Simeone. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc. 1987. 161 pp. U.S.$10.95 (cloth or paper) pp. 293-294

Jane T. Pietrowski

Technical change and full employment: Edited by Christopher Freeman and Luc Soete. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. 279 pp. U.S.$55.00 (cloth) pp. 293-293

McKinley Blackburn

Girls and women in education: David Istance, Constantina Safilios-Rothschild and Judith Whyte. Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Developm pp. 294-295

Jane T. Pietrowski

Academic freedom and catholic higher education: James John Annarelli. New York: Greenwood Press. 236 pp. U.S.$35.00 pp. 295-296

Joseph Quinn

Information systems and school improvement: Edited by Adrianne Bank and Richard Williams. New York: Teachers' College Press, 1987. xiv + 252 pp. U.S.$25.95 (cloth) pp. 296-296

Jerry J. Wellington

Bowles and Gintis revisited. Correspondence and contradiction in education theory: Edited by Mike Cole. London, New York, Philadelphia: The Falmer Press, 1988. 255 pp. U.S.$25.00 (paper), $53.00 (cloth) pp. 297-298

Mark Blaug

Higher education in partnership with industry: David R. Powers, Mary F. Powers, Frederick Betz and Carol B. Aslanian. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988. 367 pp. U.S.$2 pp. 297-297

W. Patrick Leonard

Public school finance programs of the United States and Canada, 1986-1987: Compiled and edited by Richard Salmon, Christina Dawson, Steven Lawton and Thomas Johns. Blacksburg, VA: American Educa pp. 298-299

Elchanan Cohn

Public policy and private education in Japan: Estelle James and Gail Benjamin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. xix + 218 pp. $39.95 pp. 299-300

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Volume 8, issue 2, 1989

Incentives and disincentives for subject matter difficulty and student effort: Course grade determinants across the stratification system pp. 121-132

George Farkas and Lawrence Hotchkiss

Vocational and academic education in high school: Complements or substitutes? pp. 133-148

Suk Kang and John Bishop

Educational cost factors and student achievement in grades 3 and 6: Some new evidence pp. 149-158

David Stern

Comparing employment opportunities of graduates and dropouts of full-time education and an in-service training program pp. 159-167

Evert Van Imhoff and Jozef M. M. Ritzen

Measuring the costs of magnet schools pp. 169-183

Kent John Chabotar

Can educational expansion reduce income inequality in less-developed countries? pp. 185-195

Rati Ram

Understanding differences in wages relative to income per capita: The case of teachers' salaries pp. 197-203

Alejandra Cox Edwards

The economics of overeducation: a comment pp. 205-207

Andries de Grip

The economics of overeducation: Reply pp. 209-209

Mun C. Tsang and Henry Levin

Women in nontraditional occupations. Choice and turnover: By Linda J. Waite and Sue E. Berryman. Santa Barbara: Rand Corporation, 1985. XIII + 85 pp. price: U.S. $7.50 pp. 211-211

Sherrie L. W. Rhine

Public Colleges and Universities (The Green-wood Encyclopedia of American Institutions, vol. 9): By John F. Ohles and Shirley M. Ohles. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. 1014 pp. price: U.S. $95.00 pp. 211-211

Dwight Gardner

Finances, costs and productivity of higher education: By Kuimana Simha Chalam. New Delhi: Inter India Publications, 1986. 240 pp. Rs. 195 (cloth) pp. 212-212

Hope Corman

Part-Time Faculty Personnel Management Policies: By George E. Biles and Howard P. Tuckman. New York: American Council on Education/Macmillan, 1986. 175 pp. price: U.S. $24.95 (cloth) pp. 212-213

W. Patrick Leonard

Volume 8, issue 1, 1989

Occupational training in high school: When does it pay off? pp. 1-15

John Bishop

Vocational training, supply constraints, and individual economic outcomes pp. 17-30

George Farkas, Lawrence Hotchkiss and Ernest W. Stromsdorfer

Combined training: Evidence of economic impact pp. 31-35

Richard McHugh and David W. Stevens

Vocationalism in U.S. and U.K. high schools pp. 37-47

C. G. Williams and H. H. Hornsby

Dropouts, spells of time, and credits in postsecondary education: Evidence from longitudinal surveys pp. 49-67

W. Norton Grubb

Vocational education in the secondary school: The case for continuation pp. 69-74

Daniel B. Dunham

Co-ordination of public vocational education with theJob Training Partnership Act pp. 75-81

Morgan V. Lewis

The implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act in a large industrial state: Pennsylvania pp. 83-92

Edwin L. Herr

Implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act in Texas pp. 93-105

Jerome T. Kapes

The federal role in vocational education: A case study of South Carolina pp. 107-116

Elchanan Cohn