This volume introduces a number of issues critical to the topic the economics of education including school financing …

competition and new innovations in the provision of education, the evidence from this study implies that they will need to make up …

This paper examines linkages between disability and health status and the returns to education and basic skills … equations with education and basic skills training among the independent variables. The NALS data set allows us to control for … that the returns to education for individuals with a disability or poor health are positive, although of moderate size and …

This paper presents a systematic, baseline picture of workplace education programs in small and medium-sized businesses … offering workplace education programs, what are the characteristics of the programs being provided, and what are the impacts of … opportunity to receive education in basic skills through their workplace. …

experiences. In particular, it examines differences between students who have pursued technical education programs from those who … have pursued academic programs and from those individuals who have not pursued any type of postsecondary education …

rural focus, Whites are more similar to American Indians, both experiencing very small wage returns to education. However …, females enjoy much higher returns to education than males. …

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly …