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Chapter 2 Long-Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the United States

Black, Sandra E.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 69-105). 2006

In recent decades, there has been rising anxiety about the quality of the public education in the United States … terms of the public provision of education at all levels of schooling. This chapter documents this history, describing the … conditions in the early years of the country that were conducive to the rise of universal public education, in particular the …

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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2003

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

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Measuring the Value of Better Schools

Black, Sandra E. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

[...]In this paper, I examine two methods of measuringthe value of better schools. One involves following individualsover time to determine how the quality of theirschooling affects outcomes later in their lives; the otherinvolves calculating parental valuation of better schoolstoday. I review...

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