Economics of Education Review
Volume 25, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 8
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Ten ways to know Paul A. Samuelson
Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan & Aron Gottesman
This talk was delivered by Michael Szenberg at the birthday celebration for Paul A. Samuelson on May 15, 2005 in Boston, MA. More
pp. 7-11
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Teacher quality and attrition
John M. Krieg
The argument that instructors with marketable skills are likely to exit the teaching profession leads many to believe that public schools are populated by teachers of mediocre talent. Yet, teachers... More
pp. 13-27
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Access: Net prices, affordability, and equity at a highly selective college
Catharine B. Hill & Gordon C. Winston
With financial aid data on over 14,000 aided students at Williams College for the past 14 years, we can describe how much students actually paid to go to this highly selective and expensive school—... More
pp. 29-41
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Does delaying kindergarten entrance give children a head start?
Ashlesha Datar
The rising trend in the minimum entrance age for kindergarten in the US has been motivated by findings from cross-sectional studies that older entrants have more favorable school outcomes compared ... More
pp. 43-62
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Using shocks to school enrollment to estimate the effect of school size on student achievement
Ilyana Kuziemko
Previous studies of the connection between school enrollment size and student achievement use cross-sectional econometric models and thus do not account for unobserved heterogeneity across schools.... More
pp. 63-75
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Student achievement and efficiency in Missouri schools and the No Child Left Behind Act
Diane F. Primont & Bruce Domazlicky
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act requires that schools make “annual yearly progress” in raising student achievement, or face possible sanctions. The No Child Left Behind Act places added emphasis ... More
pp. 77-90
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Private returns to human capital over transition: A case study of Belarus
Francesco Pastore & Alina Verashchagina
The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the rate of return to education is low and the earnings profile by work experience... More
pp. 91-107
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Does ending affirmative action in college admissions lower the percent of minority students applying to college?
Lisa M. Dickson
The purpose of this study is to determine how ending affirmative action in public colleges in Texas affected the percent of minority high school graduates applying to college. I find the end of... More
pp. 109-119