This major Handbook comprehensively surveys the rapidly growing field of the economics of education. It is unique in …

Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …

' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …

In this paper we analyse the decision to continue in post-compulsory education in Italy. Using data from the Survey of … of investigating factors which affect the decision to continue in post-compulsory education. The estimates of the … econometric model show that the individual with the smallest probability to continue in education has one or more of the following …

's education using detailed longitudinal data from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our study controls for individual unobserved … significantly less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15–24. Moreover, there is some evidence that mother's negative health …

the effect of formal education on both fertility and labour force participation, and accounts for the potential … endogeneity of education. Our estimates show that increasing education up to the upper secondary level exerts ceteris paribus a …

child’s education by jointly modelling the school drop-out decision and response to the family income question. Our … estimates show the exogeneity of response to the income question with a child’s education and are in line with the previous …, other non-pecuniary parental effects, such as parental education and social class, turn out to be both significant and of a …