Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Value of Education for the Individual Chapter 3: The Value of Education for a Society Chapter 4: Private and Public Demand for Education Chapter 5: Providing Education: Productivity, Cost, Efficiency and Equity Chapter 6: Supplying Education: Choosing a System Chapter 7: Policy Questions
Biography
Peter Davies is Professor of Education Policy Research, University of Birmingham, UK and Affiliated Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden.
‘Paying for Education is an outstanding contribution to explaining and deciphering the complex economic issues confronting students, their families and societies. [..] The book is fully accessible to the curious reader, but also informative and technically rigorous for the analyst.’
Henry M. Levin, William Heart Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, Columbia University and David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University, USA
‘Paying for Education by Peter Davies is one of those ‘must-have’ books for students of education. It presents the economic and sociological principles necessary to gain a deeper understanding of the political issues around how and why education should be funded, and by whom. At its core are discussions about the value of education for individuals and for society, and how all this should be systematised to provide effectiveness in outcomes and efficiency in delivery.’
Anthony Kelly, Professor of Education, University of Southampton, UK.
‘The real strength of the book is in its clear and accessible explanations of core concepts in the economics of education: concise and genuinely accessible to a range of social scientists,'
Anna Vignoles, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK
