Economics of Education Review
Volume 18, Number 3
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 6
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High school employment, high school curriculum, and post-school wages
Audrey Light
The direct, skill-enhancing effect of high school employment is difficult to identify because high school work effort is correlated with curricular choices, postsecondary schooling and work effort,... More
pp. 291-309
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Community effects and desired schooling of parents and children in Mexico
Melissa Binder
This paper investigates community effects in the determination of desired schooling in a sample of more than 300 school children and their parents in three Mexican cities. Community residence is... More
pp. 311-325
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Education costs and institutional structure
Stuart Landon
An empirical comparison is made of the impact on disaggregated education costs of three types of education spending control regimes — state-level control of education spending; local school board... More
pp. 327-345
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How similar are pay structures in `similar' departments of economics?
James F. Ragan, John T. Warren & Bernt Bratsberg
Using a unique panel data set spanning 21 years, we estimate a fixed-effects model of pay determination for five Ph.D.-granting departments of economics in large Midwestern state universities.... More
pp. 347-360
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Local public choice of school spending: disaggregating the demand function for educational services
Torberg Falch & Jørn Rattsø
The determinants of school spending are investigated using a disaggregated demand model augmented to include political factors. High school spending by county governments is disaggregated to... More
pp. 361-373
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An event history model of student departure
S.L DesJardins, D.A Ahlburg & B.P McCall
This study uses a modeling technique often used in economics and other disciplines but rarely applied to educational research. The technique, known as event history modeling, is used to examine the... More
pp. 375-390
