What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make sense of the investments and returns associated with education. Volume editors Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), Stephen Machin (University College London) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich) draw clear lines between newly emerging research on the economics of education and prior work. In conjunction with Volume 3, they measure our current understanding of educational acquisition and its economic and social effects.
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What is the value of an education? School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make sense of the investments and returns associated with education. This title combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives.
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Chapter 1: Personality Psychology and Economics
Chapter 2: Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship
Chapter 3: Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market
Chapter 4: Migration and Education
Chapter 5: Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
Chapter 6: The Design of Performance Pay in Education
Chapter 7: Educational Vouchers in International Contexts
Chapter 8: Dropouts and Diplomas: The Divergence in Collegiate Outcomes
Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Education Funding
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"2011 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Economics"
"The increased importance of knowledge, skills, and information in the modern economy means that human capital and education will be even more important in the future than it has been during the past 50 years. ... The articles in these handbook volumes convey some of the excitement that continues in research on the economics of education." --Gary S. Becker, University of Chicago
"This important volume follows soon after volume 3, so together they provide up-to-date expert evaluations of the latest research findings on the economics of education, including some significant topics that are little discussed by economists. There are chapters on how psychological behavior affects economic decisions; the relation between educational achievement on one hand and criminal activity, good health, and political participation on the other; and the relation between education and the process of economic development. Other chapters address more familiar issues, such as education and migration, the use of school vouchers, overall school financing, and performance pay for teachers. One chapter considers an intriguing issue--whether there has been, or can be, over education. Most readers will appreciate the chapter on the determinants of college achievement. Each of the nine long essays comes with an unusually extensive bibliography. Of strong value for researchers and professional educators. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." --CHOICE, August 2012, Vol. 49, No. 11, page 153
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Revises our conclusions about the value of an education by drawing on new data and methodologies
Revises our conclusions about the value of an education by drawing on new data and methodologies
Winner of a 2011 PROSE Award Honorable Mention in Economics from the Association of American Publishers
Demonstrates how new methodologies are yielding fresh perspectives in education economics
Presents topics and authors whose data and conclusions attest to the globalization of research
Complements the policy and social outcomes themes of volume 3
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780444534446
Publisert
2011-09-30
Utgiver
Vendor
North-Holland
Vekt
1370 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
191 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
708