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  • Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses

    Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools

    Improving public schools through performance-based fundingSpurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions of them are failing, and poor and minority ... Read more

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  • The Knowledge Capital of Nations

    Education and the Economics of Growth

    Series series CESifo Book Series
    A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population.In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing ... Read more

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  • Endangering Prosperity

    A Global View of the American School

    The relative deficiencies of U.S. public schools are a serious concern to parents and policymakers. But they should be of concern to all Americans, as a globalizing world introduces new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity. In Endangering Prosperity, a trio of experts on international education policy compares the performance of American schools against that of other nations. ... Read more

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  • Making Schools Work

    Improving Performance and Controlling Costs

    Educational reform is a big business in the United States. Parents, educators, and policymakers generally agree that something must be done to improve schools, but the consensus ends there. The myriad of reform documents and policy discussions that have appeared over the past decade have not helped to pinpoint exactly what should be done.The case for investment in education is an economic one: ... Read more

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  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Series Book 7 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume Seven describes the research frontier in key topical areas and sets the agenda for further work. Sections in this new release include Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation and Training, U.S. School Finance: Resources and Outcomes, College Costs, Financial Aid, and Student Decisions, Firm Training, Multidimensional Human ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Series Book 6 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    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 ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by F. Welch, Eric A Hanushek ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbooks in Economics
    The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement.With contributions from leading researchers, each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of the current state of the topic ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Series Book 5 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    The volume of research into the economics of education has grown rapidly in recent years. In this comprehensive new Handbook, editors Eric Hanushek, Stephen Machin, and Ludger Woessmann assemble original contributions from leading researchers, addressing contemporary advances in the field. Each chapter illuminates major methodological and theoretical developments and directs the reader to ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Series Book 4 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make sense of the investments and returns associated with education. Volume editors Eric A ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

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    A comprehensive guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs in developing countriesThis book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which has run hundreds of such evaluations in dozens of countries throughout the world, it ... Read more

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