This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across … neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

fraction of state education aid is spent on schools? And second, does increased educational funding for historically low … that 50 to 75 cents of each dollar of education aid were spent on schools. Estimates also suggest that increased spending …The paper studies a typical state-level education finance equalization scheme, and considers two questions. First, what …

policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor force quality, measured by cognitive skills in mathematics and … have a strong and robust influence on growth. One standard deviation in measured cognitive skills translates into one … more standard quantity measure of labor force skills. Further, the estimated growth effects of improved labor force quality …

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In … some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider … of education. In this study, we ask why different societies make different choices regarding the mix of private and …

developing country. From 1974 to 1978, the Indonesian government built over 61,000 primary schools. The school construction … program led to an increase in education among individuals who were young enough to attend primary school after 1974, but not …

, science and special education teachers working in high poverty or academically failing public secondary schools. Using … eligible and barely-ineligible schools. Results suggest that this bonus payment was sufficient to reduce mean turnover rates of …

attracting academically talented, novice teachers to low-performing schools and retaining them in those schools for at least four … of recipients to begin working in low-performing schools within two years after licensure program enrollment. We estimate … that GTF recipients would have been less likely to teach in low-performing schools than observably similar counterparts had …

The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing … requirements on teacher quality are ambiguous. Teacher testing places a floor on whatever skills are measured by the required test … deter high-quality applicants from teaching in the public schools. We use the Schools and Staffing Survey to estimate the …

Nominally free, unrestricted training in portable computer skills is offered by the majority of U.S. temporary help … temporary help firms provide free general skills training. The answer proposed is that in addition to skills formation, training …