Schools and the equal opportunity problem
By: Woessmann, Ludger (ed) ; Peterson, Paul (ed).
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007Description: vi, 327 pages : ill.ISBN: 9780262232579.Subject(s): | Educational equalization -- Europe -- Congresses | Educational equalization -- United States -- Congresses | Educational change -- Europe -- Congresses | Educational change -- United States -- Congresses | Equality -- Europe -- Congresses | Equality -- United States -- Congresses | EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General | EDUCATION -- Administration -- General | Educational change | Educational equalizationItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Philippine Institute for Development Studies Reserve Section | RB 06.02.01 MIT MSC 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available | 2016062 |
Introduction : schools and the equal opportunity problem / Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann --
Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britain / Stephen Machin --
Education and earnings over the life cycle : longitudinal age-earnings profiles from Sweden / Sofia Sandgren --
Peer effects in North Carolina public schools / Jacob Vigdor and Thomas Nechyba --
The heterogeneous effect of selection in UK secondary schools / Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles --
The optimal timing of school tracking : a general model with calibration for Germany / Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini, and Kenn Ariga --
Some U.S. evidence on how the distribution of educational outcomes can be changed / Eric A. Hanushek --
The effectiveness of human-capital policies for disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands / Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek --
Equalizing opportunity for racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States through educational-finance reform / Julian R. Betts and John E. Roemer --
Educational reform and disadvantaged students in the United States / John H. Bishop and Ferran Mane --
The impact of school choice on sorting by ability and socioeconomic factors in English secondary education / Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson --
The impact of perceived public-school quality on private-school choice in Italy / Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappelli.