This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …

The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the … background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects …

The dominant role played by the state in the financing, regulation, and provision of primary and secondary education … reflects the widely-held belief that education is necessary for personal and societal well-being. The economic organization of … education depends on political as well as market mechanisms to resolve issues that arise because of contrasting views on such …

education, is likely to decline further. Analysing broad trends in total and per student spending on elementary education across … differently on elementary education …

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …