Assessing Educational Practices introduces the nonspecialist to the research methods used by economists in studies of education practices and the institutions and markets in which education takes place. The ten chapters, all commissioned for this book, explain the way economists think about...

Schools offering an economics minor or more economics electives appear to have been at less risk than those that do not. Economics departments that did not face competition from a business program also may have been at more risk of losing majors than those that had to compete with a business...