tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …

education practices and the institutions and markets in which education takes place. The ten chapters, all commissioned for this … other subjects of current debate in education. Each author demonstrates how methods used in economics can be applied to … measure the success and failures of educational practices. All the contributions focus on precollege education and the …