Educational investment in an urban society
Subtitle: costs, benefits, and public policy.
By: Edited by Melvin R. Levin and Alan Shank.
Contributors: Shank, Alan, 1936- joint comp.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Education -- Economic aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Investment in human capital, by T. W. Schultz.; title: The concept of human capital, by G. S. Baker.; title: Investing in human capital, by B. A. Weisbrod.; title: Social and economic factors in spending for public education, by J. Miner.; title: The contribution of education to economic productivity, by C. E. Benson.; title: Capital formation by education, by T. W. Schultz.; title: The returns to education, by J. Vaizey.; title: The nature of education benefits and their spill-overs, by B. A. Weisbrod.; title: Education and poverty, by T. I. Ribich.; title: Cost-benefit analysis in education, by J. Wiseman.; title: The political economy of efficiency: cost-benefit analysis and program budgeting, by A. Wildavsky.; title: Yardsticks for Government: the role of PPBS, by M. R. Levin.; title: Rescuing policy analysis from PPBS, by A. Wildavsky.; title: Education in the program budget, by W. Z. Hirsch.; title: Toward a social report, by U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.; title: Education and learning, by W. J. Cohen.; title: Federal training and work programs in the sixties, by S. A. Levitan and G. L. Magnum.; title: Vocational versus academic education in secondary schools, by J. J. Kaufman et al.