Showing papers in "Economics of Education Review in 1986"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report statistical analysis of the determinants of average student performance on standardized examinations, and also the determinant of the extent to which students fail such examinations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the existing literature on educational cost functions in the following ways: it employs flexible cost functions to comply with prior theoretical expectations about price homogeneity without the imposition of overly restrictive assumptions regarding the technological structure; it examines possible complementarities in the provision of different levels of schooling by treating schools as multiproduct firms; and it uses disaggregated school-level data for two developing countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a stochastic frontier production function is constructed and used to measure the effect of farmer education on farm productivity in Guatemala, and the frontier function follows the Corrected Ordinary Least Squares method of Forsund et al.

TL;DR: Empirical estimates of production frontiers and average production functions, performed for selected public elementary school districts in California for 1976-1977 and 1977-1978, show the existence of increasing returns to scale, although the frontier estimates specify lower values of the overall scale economy as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of increasing the amount of math and reading instruction offered to third through sixth grade students were investigated. But, the results showed that there appeared to be little benefit expected from a further increase in the number of hours of instruction offered per day.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider user charges as a means to mobilize additional resources for education and show that families are willing to pay for education, and the resources collected through user charges could finance a sizable expansion of education and scholarships can offset the equity effects of user charges.

TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of state aid and voluntary contributions to institutions of higher education were examined using a disaggregated approach and the results indicated that institutional quality, statewide demand for higher education, legislative concern for equity and institution effort, and success in intercollegiate athletics are important determinants.

TL;DR: The authors examined the effectiveness of publicly provided student grants to achieve wealth neutral college attendance in 1980, where the wealth neutral equity criterion is defined as an equal probability of college attendance across household income.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the educational and evaluation experience with the widely known Perry Preschool Program and found that the Perry Program generated short-term IQ gains that evaporated within 2 years, followed by long-term gains in attendance, academic achievement, graduation rates and earnings, and reductions in transfer payments and pregnancies.

TL;DR: The determinants of state-wide average SAT scores are estimated for 1982 in a regression analysis which corrects for the proportion of students taking the test as mentioned in this paper, and the selectivity correction has a large impact on the estimates of the effects of other variables.

TL;DR: The authors showed that private college tuition responds in economically sensible ways to changes in public tuition, and changes in the quantity and quality of the faculties, facilities, and student bodies at private colleges.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a model that allows similarity between institutions to enter the choice framework of potential students to analyze the issue of estimating the increase in aceess provided by higher education institutions.

TL;DR: The authors found that a significant predictor of returning to school is earnings below expected earnings in the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) Young Men sample, indicating that the foregone cost of schooling was lower than they thought.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present empirical evidence on the impact of tuition rate changes on college undergraduate headcounts and credit hours over time in a case study framework and provide additional confirmation with respect to previously derived conclusions in this area.

TL;DR: In this article, a dynamic model of ideal minority representation in an employer's work force is developed, assuming that the hiring and termination processes are random and taking into account both changes in the size of the work force over time as well as minority representation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of college students' in-school work on their post-college employment and earnings, and they found that in-student work experience has a positive effect on post college earnings but not employment.

TL;DR: The municipal overburden hypothesis as discussed by the authors asserts the existence of a causal relationship between high levels of non-school municipal expenditure or tax rates and low levels of school spending, and it is used to estimate demand for expenditure on education using a median voter model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that tax reform could lead to a significant reduction in giving in higher education, due to the dependence of higher education institutions on high income donors and on gifts of appreciated property.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that budget controls to restrict university flexibility are unnecessary where state government is able to fund on the basis of per-unit subsidies and evaluate the effects of such subsidies on institutional behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison between public and private sector recruitment behaviour and their perspective of the role of the university is made, where the former places most importance on academic record while the latter places as much, if not more, on experience and the affective skills.

TL;DR: In this article, a decentralized, essentially private and unsubsidized alternative to the current student loan system is proposed, where loan terms (income contingent and adjustable fixed-term graduated repayment) would be offered by state-sponsored educational credit corporations.

TL;DR: The authors found that graduate degrees are positively associated with within-grade salary and sometimes to salary increases, but negatively related to all other measures of job performance. But they also found that higher education is not associated with higher job productivity.

TL;DR: In this article, twelve essays collected by Spyers-Duran and Mann attempt to answer this question: will American academic and research libraries be able to cope with the current technological, economic, and organizational issues that are bringing about rapid changes in information services or must fundamental changes first take place within these libraries?

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of parents' investments in their children's education on the pattern of future income distribution and on the intergenerational transmission of inequality, using a simulation model, were explored.