Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as
“Mincer rates of return”. A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews recent advances in the empirical literature on the
role that households and families play in investing in human resources. It describes the …

N RECENT YEARS, public and profes-sional interest in schools has been heightened by a
spate of reports, many of them critical of current school policy.'These policy documents have …

Between 1973 and 1978, the Indonesian government engaged in one of the largest school
construction programs on record. Combining differences across regions in the number of …

This paper summarizes and tries to reconcile evidence from the microeconometric and
empirical macro growth literatures on the effect of schooling on income and GDP growth …

This paper estimates the effects of school quality--measured by the pupil/teacher ratio,
average term length, and relative teacher pay--on the rate of return to education for men …

Cross‐national data show no association between increases in human capital attributable to
the rising educational attainment of the labor force and the rate of growth of output per …

Education has significant and far-reaching effects not only on individuals, but also on the
societies in which they live and to which they contribute. The education level of a population …

Tiebout choice among districts is the most powerful market force in American public
education. Naive estimates of its effects are biased by endogenous district formation. I derive …

▪ Abstract This review examines research on education and inequality in developing
regions. In tracing the progress of this field of inquiry, it focuses on empirical studies of …