Handbook of the Economics of Education

by Eric A. Hanushek (Editor), Ludger Woessmann (Editor), Stephen J. Machin (Editor)

Overview

The Handbook of the Economics of Education describes the research frontier in key topical areas and sets the agenda for further work. Modern analysis in the economics of education has made tremendous strides in understanding fundamental issues related to the production of human capital and the impact of varying institutional features of education systems. By bringing together some of the world's leading scholars, this volume provides a unique view of scholarship in the area. The international perspectives of the editors – Hanushek at Stanford, Machin at LSE, and Woessmann at Munich – leads to a volume with something for all researchers. Topics range from the economics of early childhood education to inequality in society to cash transfers in developing countries. - Identification and evaluation of the state of the art. - Clear descriptions of the meaning of existing research and the most likely avenues for the future - Insights into how policy interventions in education can help or hurt human capital outcomes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323992411
Publisher:	North Holland
Publication date:	01/18/2023
Series:	Handbook of the Economics of Education , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	612
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is internationally recognized for his economic analysis of educational issues, and his research has had broad influence on education policy in both developed and developing countries. He received the Yidan Prize for Education Research in 2021. He is the author of numerous widely-cited studies on the effects of class size reduction, school accountability, teacher effectiveness, and other topics. He was the first to research teacher effectiveness by measuring students’ learning gains, which forms the conceptual basis for using value-added measures to evaluate teachers and schools, now a widely adopted practice. His recent book with Ludger Woessmann, The Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth summarizes research establishing the close links between countries’ long-term rates of economic growth and the skill levels of their populations. He has authored or edited twenty-five books along with over 300 articles. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and completed his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [e-mail]; http://hanushek.stanford.edu/
Ludger Woessmann is the Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education and Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He is also Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Being interested in the determinants of long-term prosperity of mankind, his main research focus is on the economics of education, especially the importance of education for economic prosperity and the effects of school systems on educational achievement and equality of opportunity. He is Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academic Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the International Academy of Education. https://sites.google.com/view/woessmann-e
Stephen J. Machin is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, has been President of the European Association of Labour Economists, is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and was an independent member of the UK Low Pay Commission from 2007-14. He was Chair of the Economics and Econometrics sub-panel of the UK’s 2021 Research Excellence Framework. He has researched and published extensively in various areas of empirical economics and public policy, including labour market inequality, the economics of education, industrial relations, social mobility, and the economics of crime. [e-mail]; https://personal.lse.ac.uk/machin/

Table of Contents

- Investing in early childhood development in preschool and at homeGreg Duncan, Ariel Kalil, Magne Mogstad, and Mari Rege - Estimation and interpretation of teacher value added in research applicationsAndrew Bacher-Hicks and Cory Koedel - School choiceAtila Abdulkadiroglu and Tommy Andersson - Returns to different postsecondary investments: Institution type, academic programs, and credentialsMichael Lovenheim and Jonathan Smith - Addressing nonfinancial barriers to college access and success: Evidence and policy implicationsSusan Dynarski, Aizat Nurshatayeva, Lindsay C. Page, and Judith Scott-Clayton - Educational inequalityJo Blanden, Matthias Doepke, and Jan Stuhler - Conditional cash transfers for educationSandra Garcia and Juan E. Saavedra

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Editorial Reviews

"The Handbooks of the Economics of Education provide valuable surveys of the state of art in many aspects of this thriving field. They offer students and professionals alike guidance on the literature." —James J. Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Nobel Laureate in Economics

"The editors have assembled an impressive and ambitious list of subjects in this volume. I enjoy the handbook and am delighted by this expansion." --Eric Bettinger, Stanford University

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