What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make sense of the investments and returns associated with education. Volume editors Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), Stephen Machin (University College London) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich) draw clear lines between newly emerging research on the economics of education and prior work. In conjunction with Volume 3, they measure our current understanding of educational acquisition and its economic and social effects.
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES 2. Copyright 3. CONTRIBUTORS 4. REFLECTIONS ON THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION 5. INTRODUCTION TO HANDBOOK 6. Chapter 1: Personality Psychology and Economics 7. 1 Introduction 8. 2 Personality and Personality Traits: Definitions and a Brief History of Personality Psychology 9. 3 Conceptualizing Personality and Personality Traits within Economic Models 10. 4 Measuring Personality 11. 5 Implementing the Measurement Systems 12. 6 Personality and Preference Parameters 13. 7 The Predictive Power of Personality Traits 14. 8 Stability and Change in Personality Traits and Preferences 15. 9 Summary and Conclusions 16. References 17. Chapter 2: Nonproduction Benefits of Education 18. 1 Introduction 19. 2 Education’s Effects on Crime 20. 3 Education’s Effects on Health and Mortality 21. 4 Education’s Effect on Citizenship, Political Participation, and Democracy 22. 5 Conclusions 23. Appendix: Estimating Mediating Effects 24. Acknowledgments 25. References 26. Chapter 3: Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market 27. Chapter 4: Migration and Education 28. 1 Introduction 29. 2 Empirical Evidence 30. 3 The Migrant 31. 4 The Effect of Migration on the Skill Base and Educational Attainment of Nonmigrants 32. 5 The Children of Immigrants 33. 6 Conclusion 34. References 35. Chapter 5: Inequality, Human Capital Formation, and the Process of Development 36. Chapter 6: The Design of Performance Pay in Education 37. Chapter 7: Educational Vouchers in International Contexts 38. Chapter 8: Dropouts and Diplomas 39. Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Education Funding 40. Index
What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make sense of the investments and returns associated with education. Volume editors Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), Stephen Machin (University College London) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich) draw clear lines between newly emerging research on the economics of education and prior work. In conjunction with Volume 3, they measure our current understanding of educational acquisition and its economic and social effects.
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES 2. Copyright 3. CONTRIBUTORS 4. REFLECTIONS ON THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION 5. INTRODUCTION TO HANDBOOK 6. Chapter 1: Personality Psychology and Economics 7. 1 Introduction 8. 2 Personality and Personality Traits: Definitions and a Brief History of Personality Psychology 9. 3 Conceptualizing Personality and Personality Traits within Economic Models 10. 4 Measuring Personality 11. 5 Implementing the Measurement Systems 12. 6 Personality and Preference Parameters 13. 7 The Predictive Power of Personality Traits 14. 8 Stability and Change in Personality Traits and Preferences 15. 9 Summary and Conclusions 16. References 17. Chapter 2: Nonproduction Benefits of Education 18. 1 Introduction 19. 2 Education’s Effects on Crime 20. 3 Education’s Effects on Health and Mortality 21. 4 Education’s Effect on Citizenship, Political Participation, and Democracy 22. 5 Conclusions 23. Appendix: Estimating Mediating Effects 24. Acknowledgments 25. References 26. Chapter 3: Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market 27. Chapter 4: Migration and Education 28. 1 Introduction 29. 2 Empirical Evidence 30. 3 The Migrant 31. 4 The Effect of Migration on the Skill Base and Educational Attainment of Nonmigrants 32. 5 The Children of Immigrants 33. 6 Conclusion 34. References 35. Chapter 5: Inequality, Human Capital Formation, and the Process of Development 36. Chapter 6: The Design of Performance Pay in Education 37. Chapter 7: Educational Vouchers in International Contexts 38. Chapter 8: Dropouts and Diplomas 39. Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Education Funding 40. Index
