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Understanding the Economics of Schools: An Introduction

Eric A. Hanushek

PART I LABOR MARKETS

`The Distribution of Labor Incomes: A Survey. With Special Reference to the Human Capital Approach', Journal of Economic Literature, VIII (1), March, 1--26

Jacob Mincer

`Education in Production', Journal of Political Economy, 78 (1), January/February, 35--59

F. Welch

`Returns to Investment in Education: A Global Update', World Development, 22 (9), September, 1325--43

George Psacharopoulos

`Education and Self-Selection', Journal of Political Economy, 87 (5, Part 2), S7--S36

Robert J. Willis

Sherwin Rosen

`Is the Test Score Decline Responsible for the Productivity Growth Decline?', American Economic Review, 79 (1), March, 178--97

John H. Bishop

`The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination', Review of Economics and Statistics, LXXVII, 251--66

Richard J. Murnane

John B. Willett

Frank Levy

PART II DISTRIBUTION

`The Structure of Wages', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVII, 285--326

Kevin M. Murphy

Finis Welch

`Black Economic Progress After Myrdal', Journal of Economic Literature, XXVII, June, 519--64

James P. Smith

Finis R. Welch

`Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill', Journal of Political Economy, 101 (3), June, 410--42

Chinhui Juhn

Kevin M. Murphy

Brooks Pierce

`The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males', Journal of Political Economy, 109 (3), June, 455--99

Stephen V. Cameron

James J. Heckman

`College Entry by Blacks since 1970: The Role of College Costs, Family Background, and the Returns to Education', Journal of Political Economy, 102 (5), 878--911

Thomas J. Kane

PART III GROWTH

`Investment in Humans, Technological Diffusion, and Economic Growth', American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, LVI (2), May, 69--75

Richard R. Nelson

Edmund S. Phelps

`Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVI, May, 407--43

Robert J. Barro

`Does Schooling Cause Growth?', American Economic Review, 90 (5), December, 1160--83

Mark Bils

Peter J. Klenow

`Schooling, Labor-Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations', American Economic Review, 90 (5), December, 1184--208

Eric A. Hanushek

Dennis D. Kimko

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PART I EFFICIENCY

`The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools', Journal of Economic Literature, XXIV, September, 1141--77

Eric A. Hanushek

`Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXIV, May, 497--532

Alan B. Krueger

`Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXIV, May, 533--75

Joshua D. Angrist

Victor Lavy

`The Evidence on Class Size', in Susan E. Mayer and Paul E. Peterson (eds), Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter, Chapter 7, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press and New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 131--68

Eric A. Hanushek

`Educational Production', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXVI (3), August, 777--803

Edward P. Lazear

`The Effects of Salaries and Opportunity Costs on Duration in Teaching: Evidence from Michigan', Review of Economics and Statistics, LXXI, 347--52

Richard J. Murnane

Randall J. Olsen

`Leaving Teaching in the UK: A Duration Analysis', Economic Journal, 105 (429), March, 431--44

Peter Dolton

Wilbert van der Klaauw

`Understanding the Twentieth-Century Growth in U.S. School Spending', Journal of Human Resources, XXXII (1), Winter, 35--68

Eric A. Hanushek

Steven G. Rivkin

PART II COMPETITION

`The Role of Government in Education', in Capitalism and Freedom, Chapter VI, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 85--107

Milton Friedman

`Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?', American Economic Review, 90 (5), December, 1209--38

Caroline M. Hoxby

`The Effects of Catholic Secondary Schooling on Educational Achievement', Journal of Labor Economics, 15 (1, Part I), 98--123

Derek Neal

`Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXIII, May, 553--602

Cecilia Elena Rouse

PART III FINANCE AND POLICY

`Wealth Neutrality and Local Choice in Public Education', American Economic Review, 65 (1), March, 75--89

Martin S. Feldstein

`Education-Finance Reform and the Distribution of Education Resources', American Economic Review, 88 (4), September, 789--812

Sheila E. Murray

William N. Evans

Robert M. Schwab

`All School Finance Equalizations Are Not Created Equal', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXVI (4), November, 1189--231

Caroline M. Hoxby

`Competition Between Private and Public Schools, Vouchers, and Peer-Group Effects', American Economic Review, 88 (1), March, 33--62

Dennis Epple

Richard E. Romano

`Public Education and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Quantitative Evaluation of Education-Finance Reform', American Economic Review, 88 (4), September, 813--33

Raquel Fernandez

Richard Rogerson

`Mobility, Targeting, and Private-School Vouchers', American Economic Review, 90 (1), March, 130--46

Thomas J. Nechyba

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