Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 4, issue 4, 1985

Quality of education and economic growth pp. 273-290

Lewis C. Solmon

Patterns of compensation of public and private school teachers pp. 291-310

Jay G. Chambers

Mobility and efficiency in the job market for economists pp. 311-320

Steven Sheffrin

Use of the decomposition technique to test the educational screening hypothesis pp. 321-326

Irvin Tucker

A cost-benefit analysis of industrial training pp. 327-337

Solomon (suleiman) Cohen

A value-added student assessment model: Northeast Missouri State University pp. 341-350

Terry Taylor

Knowledge: Its creation, distribution, and economic significance, vol. II. The branches of learning: Fritz Machlup. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. pp. xii + 205. $19.00 (cloth) pp. 351-352

Karl A. Fox

The future of vocational education training: Paris: O.E.C.D., 1983. pp. 70. $6.50 (paper) pp. 352-352

Benoit Millot

Policies for higher education in the 1980s: Paris: O.E.C.D., 1983. pp. 234. $19.00 (paper) pp. 352-353

Benoit Millot

Compulsory schooling in a changing world: Paris: O.E.C.D., 1983. pp. 150. $17.00 (paper) pp. 353-354

Jean-Claude Eicher

American higher education: Servant of the people or protector of special interests?: E.C. Wallenfeldt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. pp. 230. $29.95 (cloth) pp. 354-355

John D. Millet

Financing recurrent education: Strategies for increasing employment, job opportunities and productivity: Henry M. Levin and Hans G. Schutze (eds). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983. pp. 320. $25.00 (cloth) pp. 355-356

Stanley D. Nollen

Financing of university education: Parmanand Singh. Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1982. pp. V + 236. $17.95 pp. 356-357

K. Siva Subrahmanyam

Designing programs for community groups: S.V. Martorana and W.E. Piland. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass 1984. $8.95 (paper) pp. 357-358

Stephen D. Millman

Issues in pricing undergraduate education: Larry H. Litten (ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1984. pp. 103. $8.95 (paper) pp. 359-359

Donald E. Frey

Unions and public schools: Randall W. Eberts and Joe A. Stone. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1984. pp. 188. $24.00 (cloth) pp. 359-360

William Alpert

Institute of manpower studies series, no. 4. Education, training and employment: Richard Pearson, Rosemary Hutt and David Parsons. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1984. pp. 202. $32.95 pp. 360-361

J. R. Hough

Volume 4, issue 3, 1985

Education block grants: Introduction to the debate pp. 163-170

Sara Capen Wedeman, Vicki Fay Passman and James Meredith Day

Implementation of Federal ECIA Block Grants to Education in Colorado pp. 171-179

James Rose

Michigan's experiences with the federal education block grant pp. 181-188

C. Philip Kearney

Rural elementary school districts in Nebraska: Their application for ECIA funds as related to demographic and economic issues pp. 189-195

Robert L. Egbert, Mary M. Kluender and James L. Roach

The distributive and educational consequences of chapter 2 block grants in Pennsylvania pp. 197-214

Peter J. Kuriloff

Implementation of federal chapter 2 block grants to education in South Carolina pp. 215-225

Elchanan Cohn

Implementation of chapter 2 in Tennessee pp. 227-235

Janet Eyler

Implementation of chapter 2 of ECIA in Texas pp. 237-243

Martin T. Katzman

Implementation of chapter 2 in Washington State pp. 245-252

Richard F. Elmore

On subsidizing education with block grants pp. 253-259

Antony Melck

Are block grants the answer to the federal role in education? pp. 261-269

Henry Levin

Volume 4, issue 2, 1985

Potential earnings, post-schooling investment and returns to human capital pp. 87-92

Philip K. Porter and Gerald W. Scully

The economics of overeducation pp. 93-104

Mun C. Tsang and Henry Levin

Determinants of administrators' salaries in public schools: Differences for men and women pp. 105-109

Joe Stone

The economics of educational reform pp. 111-121

Frances Kemmerer and Alan P. Wagner

Education as a test: an elementary exposition pp. 123-128

Andrew Weiss

Student financial aid and the college enrollment decision: the effects of public and private grants and interest subsidies pp. 129-144

J. Schwartz

The public school monopoly: a critical analysis of education and the state in American society: Edited by R B. E. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1982. pp. 583. No price given pp. 145-146

Charles S. Benson

Organization for economic co-operation and development (OECD), educational planning: A reappraisal: Paris: OECD, 1983. No price given pp. 146-148

Russell G. Davis

Costs and control in further education: John Pratt, Tony Travers and Tyrrell Burgess. Windsor: NFER publishing (distributed in U.S.A. by Humanities Press), 1978 p. 212 pp. 148-148

J. R. Hough

Class size and instruction: Leonard S. Cahen, Nikola Flby, Gail McCutcheon and Diane W. Kyle. New York: Longman, 1983. No price given pp. 149-150

Herbert J. Kiesling

The Reagan experiment: Edited by John L. Palmer> and Isabel V. Sawhill. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1982. pp. 523. price: U.S.$12.95 (paper); U.S.$29 pp. 150-150

Hugh S. Norton

Economic aspects of health: Edited by V.R. Fuchs. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research, 1982. Price: U.S.$22.00 (cloth) pp. 150-151

Philip Jacobs

School grievance arbitration: What the arbitrators are doing: Donald W. Brodie and Peg A. Williams. Redmond, WA: Butterworth Legal Publishers. Price: U.S. $35.00 (paper) pp. 151-152

Thomas A. Surratt

Teacher strikes and the courts: David L. Colton and Edith E. Graber. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1982. pp. 132. Price: U.S.$21.00 (cloth) pp. 152-153

Robert Thornton

Financing higher education: Edited by John C. Hoy and Melvin H. Bernstein. Boston, MA: Auburn House Publishing, 1982. pp. 200 + xx. Price: U.S.$19.95 (cloth) pp. 153-155

William Becker

Organization for economic co-operation and development, the education of minority groups, an inquiry into problems and practices of fifteen countries: Hampshire: Gower, 1983. pp. xiv + 376. Price: U.S.$36.90 pp. 155-156

F. Howard Nelson

Fiscal equalisation in education: Russell Mathews. Canberra: The Australian National University Press, 1983. pp. 180. No price given pp. 156-157

Norman Thomson

If not for profit, for what?: Dennis R. Young. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983. pp. xvii + 171. Price: U.S.$20.95 (cloth) pp. 157-158

Burton A. Weisbrod

Japan's high schools: a mirror but not a model for America: Thomas Rohlen. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. pp. 363. Price: U.S.$35 (cloth); U.S.$11 (paper) pp. 158-159

Frank Meissner and Margit Meissner

College choice in America: Charles F. Manski and David A. Wise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. pp. 240. Price: U.S.$20.00 (cloth) pp. 159-160

Hope Corman

Volume 4, issue 1, 1985

United States immigration policy and indirect immigration of professionals pp. 1-16

Vinod B. Agarwal and Donald R. Winkler

Where are we now in the economics of education? pp. 17-28

Mark Blaug

Education, population trends and technological change pp. 29-44

Mary Jean Bowman

The effect of socioeconomic background on earnings: a comparison by race pp. 45-55

B. F. Kiker and Julia A. Heath

The economics of teachers' strikes in Minnesota in 1981 pp. 57-65

Robert D. Ley and William A. Wines

Human capital and hierarchy pp. 67-76

M. J. Manohar Rao and Ramesh C. Datta

Cost effectiveness, a primer: H M. L. Beverly Hill, CA: Sage Publications, 1983. pp. 168. Price: $22.00 (cloth) pp. 77-78

Teh-Wei Hu

The transition from school to work: M W and P N London: Croom Helm; New York: Nichols, 1983. pp. xii + 220. No price given pp. 77-77

Michael E. Borus

University on trial: the case of the University of North Carolina: R A. D, D. C B and D J. S. Cambridge, MA: Abt Books, 1983. pp. 192. Price: $28.00 (hardback) pp. 78-79

Janet C. Hunt

Management and leadership in higher education: C O. M, J. and S O. A. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1982. pp. xx + 236. No price given pp. 79-80

W. Patrick Leonard

Education, economic change and society in England 1780-1870: M S. London: Macmillan Press, 1983. pp. 78. price: $6.25 pp. 80-81

William H. Phillips

Tuition tax credits for private education: an economic analysis: D E. F. Ames, LA: Iowa State University Press, 1983. pp. 119. Price: $10.50 (paper) pp. 81-83

Edwin G. West

Education in the third world: Edited by K W. London: Croom Helm, 1982. pp. 242. Price: $28.00 pp. 81a-81b

William H. Phillips

Public dollars for private schools: the case for tuition tax credits: Edited by T J and H M. L. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1983. pp. 271. Price: $29.95 (cloth) pp. 81c-81d

Edwin G. West

Manpower issues in educational investment: a consideration of planning processes and techniques: G P, K H, C D and R H. Washington, DC: World Bank Staff Working Papers No. 624, 1983. pp. 99. Price: $5.00 pp. 83-84

Gareth Williams