A sample of 347 students, enrolled in principles of economics classes during the period 1997-2001, is used to examine the relation between class attendance and student performance on examinations. Among the questions examined are: Is attendance related to performance, with and without controls...

Musgrave, m his Theory of Public Finance, argues that the pnce effect of a unit tax Abstract under monopoly is one half the effect under competition when demand and supply curves are linear. It is shown here that this rule applies only for the constant-cost case. For an increasing supply...

This major Handbook comprehensively surveys the rapidly growing field of the economics of education. It is unique in that it comprises original contributions on an exceptional range of topics from a review of human capital, signalling and screening models, to consideration of issues such as...

Examines the main results of a study conducted in cooperation with the Concentrated Employment Program (CEP) in Columbus, Ohio, which investigated the reasons participants took part or did not take part in CEP. Characteristics of participants; Job preferences; Respondents' evaluation of the...

Employing data for the United States taken from the 1983 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, an attempt is made to estimate tenure-earnings and tenure-productivity profiles. The underlying methodological approach is to assume that earnings of self-employed workers are identical to the...

A multiple-output cost function is estimated for institutions of higher education in the United States, employing data for 1981-82. The authors flexible fixed cost quadratic function includes three outputs--undergraduate teaching, graduate teaching, and research grants--and one input...