Schools and the equal opportunity problem
By: edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson.
Contributors: Woessmann, Ludger.; Peterson, Paul E.
Series: CESifo seminar series
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780262232579
Subjects: 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
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : schools and the equal opportunity problem / Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann; title: Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britain / Stephen Machin; title: Education and earnings over the life cycle : longitudinal age-earnings profiles from Sweden / Sofia Sandgren; title: Peer effects in North Carolina public schools / Jacob Vigdor and Thomas Nechyba; title: The heterogeneous effect of selection in UK secondary schools / Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles; title: The optimal timing of school tracking : a general model with calibration for Germany / Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini, and Kenn Ariga; title: Some U.S. evidence on how the distribution of educational outcomes can be changed / Eric A. Hanushek; title: The effectiveness of human-capital policies for disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands / Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek; title: Equalizing opportunity for racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States through educational-finance reform / Julian R. Betts and John E. Roemer; title: Educational reform and disadvantaged students in the United States / John H. Bishop and Ferran Mane; title: 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; title: The impact of perceived public-school quality on private-school choice in Italy / Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappelli.