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Assessing Educational Practices: The Contribution of Economics

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  • William E. Becker
    (Indiana University)

  • William J. Baumol
    (New York University)

Abstract

Assessing Educational Practices introduces the nonspecialist to the research methods used by economists in studies of education practices and the institutions and markets in which education takes place. The ten chapters, all commissioned for this book, explain the way economists think about teachers' salaries, student achievement, class size, school organization, and other subjects of current debate in education. Each author demonstrates how methods used in economics can be applied to measure the success and failures of educational practices. All the contributions focus on precollege education and the discussion is largely based on the United States experience. One chapter looks at teaching in the United Kingdom, and another at international comparisons of incentives and student performance. Other topics include the effect of school quality on students' future earnings, merit pay for teachers, school spending and budgets, the relationship between competition and school quality, and proposals to improve secondary schools.

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  • William E. Becker & William J. Baumol (ed.), 1995. "Assessing Educational Practices: The Contribution of Economics," MIT Press Books, The MIT Press, edition 1, volume 1, number 0262023989, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mtp:titles:0262023989
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    Cited by:

    1. Nick Adnett, "undated". "Competition in the School Curriculum: the economic and policy context in the UK," Working Papers 001, Staffordshire University, Business School.
    2. , & Gonzalez-Eiras, Martin, 2007. "Population Ageing, Government Budgets, and Productivity Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium," CEPR Discussion Papers 6581, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Arnaud Chevalier & Peter Dolton, 2004. "The Labour Market for Teachers," Working Papers 200411, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    4. Saavedra, Juan Esteban, 2012. "Resource constraints and educational attainment in developing countries: Colombia 1945–2005," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 99(1), pages 80-91.
    5. Byoung Uk Kang & Jin-Mo Kim & Oded Palmon & Zhaodong Zhong, 2020. "Are college education and job experience complements or substitutes? Evidence from hedge fund portfolio performance," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 54(4), pages 1247-1278, May.

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    Keywords

    education; school budgets;

    JEL classification:

    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education

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