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Public Intervention in Post-Secondary Education

Kane, Thomas J. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

This chapter provides an overview of the nature of state and federal subsidies to higher education and the empirical evidence on the impacts on students' college enrollment decisions. The discussion includes a brief discussion of the incentives created by federal and state subsidies for...

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Teacher Supply

Dolton, Peter J. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

labor supply of teachers and assesses the variation in teacher's real pay across in aggregate across 35 countries in the …

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Licensure: Exploring the Value of this Gateway to the Teacher Workforce

Goldhaber, Dan - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

teacher labor market through licensure systems. Most of these systems require teachers to graduate from an approved teacher … teachers, thereby lowering the quality of teachers in the workforce. It is shocking how little we actually know about key … achievement. Far less evidence exists on the impact of licensure on the pool of potential teachers, or who school district hiring …

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Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: International Reforms

Chapman, Bruce - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students' future economic fortunes, and an unwillingness of banks to provide loans because of the absence of collateral. It follows that without government intervention there will be both socially...

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Pre-School, Day Care, and After-School Care: Who's Minding the Kids?

Blau, David; Currie, Janet - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

who are neither their parents nor their school teachers. The role of such pre-school and out-of-school care is potentially …

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The Courts and Public School Finance: Judge-Made Centralization and Economic Research

Fischel, William A. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

This paper explores for economists how the school-finance litigation movement, which began with Serrano v. Priest in 1971, ought to be characterized in economic models. Its primary message is that this has become a national movement, not one confined to individual states. Economists should be...

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Preface

Hanushek, Eric A.; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

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Handbook of the Economics of Education

Hanushek, Erik (contributor); Welch, F. (contributor) - Elsevier

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Has School Desegregation Improved Academic and Economic Outcomes for Blacks?

Rivkin, Steven; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

A half a century has passed since the landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned the doctrine of separate but equal in the realm of public education. This chapter attempts to summarize what we know about the impact of Brown on enrollment patterns and academic and economic...

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Does Learning to Add up Add up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data

Pritchett, Lant - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

The theoretical, conceptual, and practical difficulties with the use of cross-national data on schooling are so severe using aggregate data for any purpose for which individual level data would do should be avoided. There are, however, three questions for which the use of cross-national data on...

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