Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 6, issue 4, 1987

Daniel H. Saks: In memoriam pp. 317-318

Byron W. Brown

The microeconomics of the allocation of teachers' time and student learning pp. 319-332

Byron W. Brown and Daniel H. Saks

The case for evaluating training programs with randomized trials pp. 333-338

Orley Ashenfelter

Federal and state grants to education: Are they stimulative or substitutive? pp. 339-344

Elchanan Cohn

University marginal instructional costs: Implications for charges to overseas students pp. 345-355

Stephen A. Hoenack and Colleen T. Davidson

The economics of student time pp. 357-364

Henry Levin and Mun C. Tsang

School district enrollment and inequality in the supply of classes pp. 365-377

David H. Monk

Changes in teacher salaries during the 1970s: The role of school district demographics pp. 379-388

Richard Murnane, Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett

The impact of salary differentials on teacher shortages and turnover: The case of mathematics and science teachers pp. 389-399

Russell W. Rumberger

Volume 6, issue 3, 1987

Economic issues in faculty retirement plans in American higher education institutions pp. 207-226

William C. Weiler

The effects of tuition level and financial aid on the demand for undergraduate and advanced terminal degrees pp. 227-238

Julia A. Heath and Howard P. Tuckman

The impact of underutilization of education on productivity: A case study of the U.S. Bell companies pp. 239-254

Mun Chiu Tsang

The rate of return on educational expansion pp. 255-262

John Knight and R. H. Sabot

The Scholastic Aptitude Test: Participation and performance pp. 263-273

Mark Dynarski

The Eilberg Act, new seed immigration, and professional labor markets pp. 275-283

Vinod B. Agarwal and Gilbert R. Yochum

Assessing the impact of expenditure on achievement: Some methodological and policy considerations pp. 285-299

Robert C. Dolan and Robert M. Schmidt

Schooling and other human capital investments: Can the effects be identified? pp. 301-305

Jere Behrman

Countertrading textiles for tuitions: A way to secure more foreign students pp. 307-309

Albert A. Blum

The Financing of American Higher Education: a bibliographic handbook: Richard H. Quay and Peter P. Olevnik. Phoenix, AZ: The Oryx Press, 1984. xvi + 142 pp. Price: $36.00 (cloth) pp. 311-311

Terry G. Geske

Closing the Gap: Forty years of economic progress for blacks: James P. Smith and Finis R. Welch, Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation, 1986, 128 pp. Price $10.00 (paper) pp. 311-312

Woodrow Hughes

Volume 6, issue 2, 1987

Introduction pp. 63-65

Benoit Millot

The importance of examining cohort uniqueness in the formulation of human investment policies pp. 67-79

Mary Jean Bowman

Self-employment vs wage employment: Estimation of earnings functions in LDCs pp. 81-89

Lee-Ying Soon

Initial vs recurrent training for skilled trades in Israel -- results of a 7-year follow-up study pp. 91-98

Adrian Ziderman

The external efficiency of diversified secondary schools in Colombia pp. 99-110

Eduardo Velez and George Psacharopoulos

Schooling in developing countries: Which countries are the Over- and underachievers and what is the schooling impact? pp. 111-127

Jere Behrman

Selecting the brightest for post secondary education in Colombia: The impact on equity pp. 129-135

Emmanuel Jimenez and Jee-Peng Tan

Secondary school size and curriculum comprehensiveness pp. 137-150

David H. Monk

Human capital and economic cycles pp. 151-160

J. M. M. Ritzen

Education and earnings in the People's Republic of China pp. 161-166

Dean Jamison and Jacques Van der Gaag

Education policy and schooling attainment in Malaysia and the Philippines pp. 167-181

Elizabeth King and Lee Lillard

The relation of education and R&D to productivity growth in the developing countries of Africa pp. 183-194

Walter W. McMahon

Financing student flows: The effects of recent policy trends pp. 195-204

Maureen Woodhall

Volume 6, issue 1, 1987

The public/private division of responsibility for education: An international comparison pp. 1-14

Estelle James

Union-negotiated employment rules and teacher quits pp. 15-25

Randall Eberts

The effect of education in Nepal's traditional agriculture pp. 27-34

Dharmendra Dhakal, Richard Grabowski and Krishna Belbase

The impact of consumer credentialism on employee and entrepreneur returns to higher education pp. 35-40

Irvin Tucker

Determinants of youth's educational and occupational goals: Sex and race differences pp. 41-48

Emily P. Hoffman

University education as a homogenizing process: an exploratory study pp. 49-54

Horacio Matos-Diaz

Today's problems tomorrow's crises: A report of the National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology, first report: Washington D.C.: National Science Board, National Science Foundation, 1982, pp. 8. free pp. 55-55

Sherre L. W. Rhine

Educating Americans for the 21st century: A plan of action for improving mathematics, science and technology education for all American elementary and secondary students so that their achievement is the best in the world by 1995, source materials and report: 2 vols. Washington D.C.: The National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, National Science Foundation, 1983. pp. x, 251; pp. xvi, 124. Price: $5.00 (paper) pp. 55-55

Sherre L. W. Rhine

New directions for community colleges: Strengthening financial management: No. 50, edited by. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1985. pp. 135. Price: $8.95 (paper) pp. 56-56

George B. Vaughan

The great school debate: Which way for American education?: Edited by and. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1985. pp. 544. Price: $9.95 (paper) pp. 57-57

Charles S. Benson

Volume 5, issue 4, 1986

Municipal overburden: an empirical analysis pp. 353-361

Harvey E. Brazer and Therese A. McCarty

Selectivity bias and the determinants of SAT scores pp. 363-371

Amy Behrendt, Jeffrey Eisenach and William Johnson

The merits of a longer school day pp. 373-381

Charles Link and James Mulligan

U.K. research into school costs and resources pp. 383-394

J. R. Hough and S. J. Warburton

Affective, cognitive and vocational skills: The employers' perspective pp. 395-401

Kiong-Hock Lee

State action and the distribution of school enrollments in Brazil, 1970 pp. 403-414

David N. Plank

Tuition and U.S. private college characteristics: The hedonic approach pp. 415-430

Jon D. Harford and Richard Marcus

Women, education, and employment: A bibliography of periodical citations, pamphlets, newspapers and government documents, 1970-1980: Renee Feinberg. Hamden, Connecticut: The Shoe String Press, 1982. pp. 274. Price: $25.00 (cloth) pp. 431-431

Patricia Roos

The schools, the courts and the public interest: John C. Hogan. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985. pp. xx, 199. $22.00 (cloth) pp. 432-433

Laurence R. Marcus

Schooling in Western Europe: A social history: Mary Jo Maynes, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1985. pp. 192. $29.50 (cloth), $9.95 (paper) pp. 433-434

Patrick J. Harrigan

Forecasting the wages of young men: The effects of cohort size: Hong W. Tan and Michael P.Ward. The Rand Corporation, R-3115-Army, May 1985. pp. 58. $7.50 pp. 434-434

Janet C. Hunt

Value for money in education: R. Lord. London: Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. 1984. pp. 78. [UK pound]7.50 (paper) pp. 435-436

J. R. Hough

Educational finance and resources: W.F. Dennison. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1984. pp. 271. [UK pound]15.95 (cloth) pp. 435-435

J. R. Hough

Managing school finance: B. Knight. London: Heinemann, 1984. pp. 232. [UK pound]9.50 (cloth) pp. 435-435

J. R. Hough

Women's wages and work in the twentieth century: James P. Smith and Michael P. Ward. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 1984. pp. 96. $7.50 (paper) pp. 436-437

Ethkl B. Jones

Applying corporate management strategies: Edited by Roger J. Fecher. New directions for higher education. No. 50. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, June 1985. pp. 85. $9.95 (paper) pp. 437-438

James L. Wattenbarger

Education versus qualifications?: Edited by John Oxenham. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984. pp. 246. $25.00 (cloth), $9.95 (paper) pp. 438-439

Maureen Woodhall

Education and economic performance: Edited by G.D.N. Worswick. National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Policy Studies Institute, and Royal Institute of International Affairs: Joint Studies in Public Policy 9. Aldershot, England and Brookfield, Vermont: Gower Publishing Co., 1984. pp. 147. $29.95. (cloth) pp. 439-440

Edward F. Denison

Teachers, unions, and change: A comparative study: D.K. Jessup. New York: Praeger, 1985. pp. x + 256. Price: $33.95 (cloth) pp. 440-441

William Alpert

Integrating women's studies into the curriculum: An annotated bibliography: Compiled by Susan Douglas Franzosa and Karen Massa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. pp. xiv, 100. Price: $29.95 (cloth) pp. 441-442

Carole Levin

Higher education finance: An annotated bibliography and guide to research: Edward R. Hines and John R. Mc Carthy. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. pp. 350. Price: $50 (cloth) pp. 442-442

Patricia M. Flynn

Volume 5, issue 3, 1986

Graduate degrees and job success: Managers in one U.S. Corporation pp. 227-237

Jennie Hay Woo

Children's education and the intergenerational transmission of inequality: a simulation pp. 239-256

Nancy Birdsall and Oey Astra Meesook

Farmer education and efficiency: a frontier production function approach pp. 257-264

Joseph M. Phillips and Robert P. Marble

Assessing personnel practices in higher education: A case study in the hiring of females pp. 265-272

William Becker and Arlington Williams

Expanding education through user charges: What can be achieved in Malawi and other LDCs? pp. 273-286

Alain Mingat and Jee-Peng Tan

A disaggregated investigation of learning functions in introductory economics pp. 287-295

John L. Fizel and John L. Fiedler

Production frontier estimates of scale in public schools in California pp. 297-307

Jati K. Sengupta and Raymond E. Sfeir

Earnings and the decision to return to school pp. 309-317

Richard Marcus

Fritz Machlup's swan song pp. 319-323

Jacob Cohen

Crisis management in American higher education: Barbara Ann Scott. New York: Praeger, 1984. pp. 368. Price: $37.50 (cloth) pp. 325-326

Clikton F. Conrad

Black Colleges and Universities: Challenges for the future: Antoine Garibaldi (Ed.). New York: Praeger, 1984. pp. 305. forward, preface and index. Price: $29.95 (cloth) pp. 326-327

Larky E. Rivers

Financial incentives for academic quality: John Folger (Ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1984. pp. 104. Price: $8.95 (paper) pp. 327-328

W. Patrick Leonard

Keeping graduate programs responsive to national needs, new directions for higher education series: Michael J. Pelczar Jr and Lewis C. Solmon (Eds). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1984. pp. 126. Price: $8.95 (paper) pp. 328-330

Leonard A. Lecht

World Bank Staff working paper, no. 661. user charges for education: The ability and willingness to pay in Malawi: Jee-Peng Tan, Kiong Hock Lee and Alain Mingat. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1984. pp. 98. Price: $5.00 (paper) pp. 330-331

Carmel Chiswick

Youthjobs: Toward a private/public partnership: David Bresnick. Westport, CT: Quorum books, 1984. Price: $29.95 pp. 331-332

Marcia Freedman

Toward International Tele-Education: Wilbur T. Blume and Paul Schneller (Eds). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984. pp. 256. Price: $19.50 pp. 332-333

Robert E. Hoye

Social welfare spending: Accounting for changes from 1950 to 1978: Robert J. Lamp-Man. New York: Academic Press. 1984. Price: $29.00 (cloth) pp. 333-334

Nancy D. Ruggles

Extending the Educational Ladder: The changing quality and value of postdoctoral study: William Zumbta. Lexington, MA: Heath Lexington Books. 1984. No price given pp. 334-335

Nancy L. Ochnek

Women in higher education administration: Adrian Tinslhy, Cynthia Secor and Shuila Kaplan (Eds). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1984. Price: $8.95 (paper) pp. 335-336

Mary Ann D. Sagaria

High schools and the changing workplace: The employers' view: Report of the panel on secondary school education for the changing workplace. Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1984. pp. xiv, + 50. Price: $2.00 (paper) pp. 337-337

C. Glyn Williams

Teaching and aging: Chanora M.N., Men-Kotra (Ed.). San Francisco. CA: Jossey-Bass, 1984. Price: 38.95 (paper) pp. 337-338

Ernest Furchgott

Managing human resources in special education: Michael J. Fimian, Mary Beth Fafard and Kenneth W. Howell. New York: Praeger, 1984. pp. 336. Price: $32.95 (cloth) pp. 338-339

Richard J. Whelan

The measurement of equity in school finance: Conceptual, methodological, and empirical dimensions: Robert Berne and Leanna Stiefel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. pp. xvii, + 297. Price: $35.00 pp. 339-340

Donald E. Frey

The dilemma of education in a democracy: Richard H. Powers. Chicago, IL: Regnery Gateway, Inc., 1984. pp. 253. Price: $16.95 (cloth) pp. 340-341

Richard Marcus

The Handbook of Organizational Development in Schools: (3rd edition). Richard A. Schmuck and Phillip J. Runkel. Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1985. pp. 550. Price: $22.95 (cloth) pp. 341-343

Christopher B. Keys

Women in nontraditional occupations: Choice and turnover: Linda J. Waite and Sue E. Berryman. Santa Monica: Rand, R-3106-FF, 1985. pp. 85. Price: $7.50 (paper) pp. 343-344

S. Dex

The World Crisis in Education: The view from the '80s: Phillip H. Coombs, Oxford University Press, 1985. pp. xiv, 353. Price: $19.95 (cloth) pp. 344-346

Gareth Willams

Financing information services: Problems, changing approaches, and new opportunities for academic research libraries: Peter Spyers-Duran and Thomas W. Mann (Eds). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1985. pp. vi, + 193. Price: $29.95 (cloth) pp. 344-344

Ann E. Prentice

Apartheid and education: Peter Kalloway (Ed.). Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1984. pp. 409. Price: $24.95 (paper) pp. 346-347

William Siebert

Youth education and employment -- international perspectives: Keith Watson with assistance from Tony Bates, Kate Berry and Gillian Beardsley (Eds). Beckenham: Croom Helm Ltd., 1983. pp. 180. Price: $32.00 (cloth) pp. 347-348

Kevin Hollenbeck

Systematic planning for educational change: William G. Cunningham, Palo Alto: May-Field Publishing Company, 1982. pp. 323. Price: $19.95 (cloth) pp. 348-349

Jacob B. Michaelsen

Weeding out the target population: The law of accountability in a manpower program: James Latimore. Westport, Connecticut: Green Wood Press, 1985. pp. 176, + x. Price: $29.95 (cloth) pp. 349-349

Garth L. Mangum

Jobs for the nation: Challenges for a society based on work: Anthony Patrick Carnevale Alexandria, VA: American Society for training and development, 1985. pp. 269. Price: members $16.00, non-members $20.00 (paper) pp. 349-350

C. Glyn Williams

Volume 5, issue 2, 1986

Introduction pp. 105-106

O. Homer Erekson

Wealth neutrality in higher education: The effects of student grants pp. 107-117

J. Schwartz

The social security student benefit program and family decisions pp. 119-128

Ronald Ehrenberg and Rebecca A. Luzadis

The effects of student higher education grants pp. 129-133

John Siegfried

An adult life cycle perspective on public subsidies to higher education in three countries pp. 135-145

Mary Jean Bowman, Benoit Millot and Ernesto Schiefelbein

Reform of budget control in higher education pp. 147-158

L. R. Jones, Fred Thompson and William Zumeta

Issues in higher education budgeting policy pp. 159-163

Mary P. McKeown

Reform of budget control: Reply pp. 165-166

L. R. Jones, Fred Thompson and William Zumeta

Tax reform and individual giving to higher education pp. 167-178

Gerald E. Auten and Gabriel G. Rudney

Determinants of state aid and voluntary support of higher education pp. 179-190

Cletus Coughlin and O. Homer Erekson

Aid sources for higher education: Taxes and other determinants pp. 191-195

Richard F. Dye

Price-induced substitution of faculty in academe: Does mission make a difference? pp. 197-204

Cyril F. Chang and Howard P. Tuckman

The impacts of tuition rate changes on college undergraduate headcounts and credit hours over time -- a case study pp. 205-217

George A. Chressanthis

A review of two studies of elasticity in academe pp. 219-224

Emily P. Hoffman

Volume 5, issue 1, 1986

The educational credit trust: a proposal for reconstitution and reform of the student loan system pp. 1-16

Stephen P. Dresch

Evaluation of education projects: the case of the perry preschool program pp. 17-24

Edward Gramlich

The structure of educational costs: Multiproduct cost functions for primary and secondary schools in latin America pp. 25-39

Emmanuel Jimenez

Some new evidence on teacher and student competencies pp. 41-48

Robert Strauss and Elizabeth A. Sawyer

A sequential logit model of the access effects of higher education institutions pp. 49-55

William C. Weiler

Race and demographic trends: the employment of minority teachers in California public schools pp. 57-64

Craig E. Richards

The early labor force experience of college students and their post-college success pp. 65-76

Gee San

An analysis of the private rate of return to vocational nursing education in Nigeria pp. 77-81

J. Okpako Enaohwo and H. O. Osakwe

Publication performance of fifty top economics departments: a per capita analysis pp. 83-86

John Golden, Fred Carstensen, Paul Weiner and Steve Kane

Innovation through recession: Geoffrey Squires (ed.). Guildford: society for research into higher education, 1983 (distributed in the U.S. by Humanities Press. Atlantic Highlands, N pp. 87-87

Robin Horn

Social policy evaluation: an economic perspective: Elchanan Helpman, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka (eds). New York: Academic Press. 1983. pp. xiv -- 313. price: $44.00 (cloth) pp. 88-89

David Stager

The business school in the 1980s: Liberalism versus vocationalism: Paul S. Hugstad. New York: Praeger, 1983. pp. 147. $29.95 (cloth) pp. 89-90

Donald L. Tutile

Evaluating teaching: Kenneth O. Doyle Jr. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books. 1983. pp. 173. No price given pp. 90-91

Robert S. Holbrook

Changing practices in faculty evaluation: Peter Seldin, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1984. pp. 200. $15.95 (cloth) pp. 90-90

Robert S. Holbrook

Terminal degrees: the job crisis in higher education: Emily K. Abel. New York: Praeger, 1984. pp. 253, $24.95 (cloth) pp. 91-92

Howard P. Tuckman

Public schools in hard times. The great depression and recent years: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. pp. 328. $20.00 (cloth) pp. 92-94

Roe L. Johns

State and campus: State regulation of religiously affiliated higher education: Fernand N. Dutile and Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr. Notre Dame. IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 1984. pp. 502, $22.95 (cloth) and $19.95 (paper) pp. 94-95

Gah Paulus Sorenson

New directions for institutional research, no. 41. determining the effectiveness of campus services: Robert A. Scott (ed.), San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 1984, $8.95 (paper) pp. 95-96

Clifton F. Conrad

Educational policy: an international survey: J.R. Hough (ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. 1984. pp. 300. price: $27.50 (cloth) pp. 96-97

Bikas C. Sanyal

The education of the black adult in the United States: an annotated bibliography: Compiled by Leo Mcgee and Harvey G. Neufeldt London, Greenwood Press, 1985. X. 108 pp. price: $29.95 pp. 97-97

Arthur O. White

Erratum pp. 101-101

B. F. Kiker and Julia A. Heath