1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education

Edited By Brian P. McCall Copyright 2022
616 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

616 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

616 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The economics of education is a burgeoning area of study, employing increasingly sophisticated analytical tools to answer questions with high societal impact. Thus, the aim of this handbook is to provide readers with an up-to-date overview of the current state of the field of the economics of education and its main areas of research. This comprehensive handbook provides an authoritative... Read more

Introduction

Brian P. McCall

1. Econometric methods for education

Luc Behaghel and Maria Florencia Pinto

2. Early childhood education in the United States: what, when, where, who, how, and why

Elizabeth U. Cascio

3. Nearly three decades into the charter school movement, what has research told us about charter schools?

Ron Zimmer, Richard Buddin, Sarah Ausmus Smith, and Danielle Duffy-Chipman

4. School accountability

Jason Burns and Katharine O. Strunk

5. Evaluating teacher effectiveness: a review of historical developments and current trends

Christopher D. Brooks and Matthew G. Springer

6. Is education different? A review of the voucher literature and lessons for implementation

Dennis Epple, Richard E. Romano, and Miguel Urquiola

7. Teacher labor markets: what have we learned over the last decade?

Jessalynn James and James Wyckoff

8. Teacher labor markets in developing countries

Lee Crawfurd and Todd Pugatch

9. School resources and educational outcomes in developing countries

Paul Glewwe, Celestine Siameh, Bixuan Sun, and Suzanne Wisniewski

10. Peer effects in education

Angela Cools and Eleonora Patacchini

11. Socioeconomic inequalities in education beyond the early years

Claire Crawford, Lindsey Macmillan, and Gill Wyness

12. Factors shaping college investment and enrollment gaps

George Bulman and Jesse Cunha

13. Vocational education: an international perspective

Celeste K. Carruthers and Christopher Jepsen

14. College persistence and bachelor’s degree completion

Brian P. McCall

15. College majors

Arpita Patnaik, Matthew Wiswall, and Basit Zafar

16. Student loan borrowing and repayment decisions: risks and contingencies

Kartik Athreya, Christopher Herrington, Felicia Ionescu, and Urvi Neelakantan

17. For-profit colleges in the United States: insights from two decades of research

Stephanie Riegg Cellini

18. Competition in higher education

Michael Kaganovich, Sinan Sarpca, and Xuejuan Su

19. Education and economic growth

Anna Valero

Biography

Brian P. McCall is Professor of Education, Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is a former co-editor of Economics of Education Review. His current research interests in the economics of education include the effect of scholarships on college persistence, completion, and earnings, the effect of college enrollment delay on college completion, and the impact of the Great Recession on educational attainment and earnings. He received his PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1988.