Showing papers in "Economics of Education Review in 2002"

TL;DR: The authors found that higher non-cognitive skills and college premiums among women account for nearly 90 percent of the gender gap in higher education, despite some gender differences in the determinants of college attendance.

TL;DR: This article analyzed household and school survey data from poor counties in six Chinese provinces to examine the effects of poverty, intra-household decision-making, and school quality on educational investments (enrollment decisions) and learning outcomes.

TL;DR: The authors used a large German panel data set for the period 1984-1998 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of over- and undereducation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the factors affecting economies of size and update the literature since 1980, finding that the best of the cost function studies suggest that sizeable potential cost savings in instructional and administrative costs may exist by moving from a very small district (500 or fewer pupils) to a district with ca 2000-4000 pupils.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the expected earnings variable is essential in the choice of a college major, and they use a mixed multinomial logit and probit model and an heteroscedastic extreme value model.

TL;DR: This article examined the determinants of educational attainments at the primary, middle and high school levels in Turkey and found that only half of the primary school graduates register at the middle level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of human capital on growth in three groups of countries that exhibit significantly different levels of development and found that the role of primary and secondary education seems to be more important in LDC nations, while growth in OECD economies depends mainly on higher education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the value-added approach to measuring school success with particular attention to its implementation as a tool for increasing student achievement and find that, as implemented, value added measures of school effectiveness distort incentives and are likely to discourage good teachers and administrators from working in schools serving concentrations of disadvantaged students.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the available evidence on the economic benefits of post-secondary education below the level of the baccalaureate degree, concentrating on the effects of community colleges and found substantial benefits for many kinds of postsecondary education, particularly when individuals complete programs, enroll in certain occupational areas, and find employment related to their fields of study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived and maximised the likelihood function associated with this problem, and hence construct measures of economies of scale and scope which obtain in British higher education, using the half-normal residuals generated by the stochastic frontier estimation to construct the measures of technical efficiency for each university in their sample.

TL;DR: The authors empirically examined whether devoting more resources to education can positively affect the distribution of income (as measured by the Gini coefficient) within a country, and found that public education expenditures appear to be associated with a subsequent decrease in the level of income inequality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided estimates of the returns to education in wage employment in India by gender, age cohort and location (rural-urban) for the most recent period 1993/4, and also evaluated the changes in returns over a period of time from 1983-94 using data from a large national level household survey.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of family characteristics and local labor market conditions on the demand for post-compulsory education and find that parents' education is the main determinant of school enrollment, producing a sort of intergenerational persistence in the Spanish stock of human capital.

TL;DR: This paper examined the postsecondary enrollment decisions of immigrant students, expanding on previous work by explicitly considering their choices among institution types and by examining differences across generations and racial/ethnic categories using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS:88).

TL;DR: In this article, a two-stage least-squares model of the demand for and supply of enrollment in public higher education in 48 continental US states was used to understand the enrollment consequences of higher education and explore policy options.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed several firm-related aspects of employee productivity using GSOEP data and found that overqualified employees are healthier, more strongly work-and career-minded, more likely to participate in on-the-job training, and to have longer periods of tenure with the same firm than their correctly allocated colleagues.

TL;DR: The authors developed a nested logit model of the determinants of choice of a graduate business school and found that black and Hispanics are substantially more attracted to top-tier institutions, while women are less attracted to them.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper estimated the effects of three forms of human capital on employee salary, namely formal education, on-the-job training provided by employers, and adult education pursued by employees.

TL;DR: This article used data from the National Adult Literacy Survey to examine the relationship between schooling and earnings and found that for the most part, it is the substance of learning in school, the accumulated human capital, that counts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend prior work by jointly modeling the application and enrollment decision for in-state and out-of-state freshmen at a large public university and compare the responsiveness of applicants and enrollees to person-specific and time-specific variation in the net price.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how well the schooling coefficient in standard Mincer equations, estimated on Swedish data for 1968, 1981 and 1991, approximates the marginal internal rate of return to education.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the exclusive use of the student evaluation of teaching data in the determination of instructor performance is tantamount to the promotion and practice of pseudoscience, two activities anathema to the academic mission.

TL;DR: This paper evaluated the impact of different curricula options on students' subsequent earnings, focusing specifically on the issue of whether a broader curriculum at age 16-19 yields a higher return than a narrow curriculum.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze some characteristics of the higher education system in Argentina regarding equity and efficiency regarding the top deciles of the income distribution and relatively highly educated individuals attending the university.

TL;DR: This paper investigated differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the Universities' Statistical Record (USR) and found significant differences between the two indicators of universities' performance.

TL;DR: This article reported the results of an econometric analysis of the borrowing and repayment patterns of Canadian bachelor's level university graduates, using data from the National Graduates Survey (NGS) of the class of 1990.

TL;DR: This paper showed that borrowing constraints retard social mobility among the poor by preventing poor parents from investing optimally in their children's human capital. But they also showed that sibling inequality appears to be independent of parental wealth, which contradicts the predictions of various economic models of resource allocation within the family.

TL;DR: This article reviewed evidence on the economic benefits of postsecondary education below the baccalaureate degree, based on results using state Unemployment Insurance wage record data, and found substantial benefits for many kinds of post-secondary education, particularly when individuals complete programs and enroll in certain occupational areas.