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Is There an Educational Problem and If So, What Does it Look Like? |
Autor, David, Frank Levy, and Richard J. Murnane, "The Consequences of Increasing the Nation's Supply of College Graduates." Policy Brief Written for the Gates Foundation. December, 2003.
Wessel, David. "Moving Up: Challenges to The American Dream; Escalator Ride: As Rich-Poor Gap Widens in the U.S., Class Mobility Stalls; Those in Bottom Rung Enjoy Better Odds in Europe; How Parents Confer an Edge; Immigrants See Fast Advance." Wall Street Journal (May 13, 2005): A1.
Solon, Gary. "Cross Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility." Journal of Economic Perspectives 16, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 59-66.
Jorgenson, Dale W., Mun S. Ho, and Kevin J. Stiroh. "Will the U.S. Productivity Resurgence Continue?" Current Issues in Economics and Finance 10, no. 13 (December 2004). |
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Human Capital Theory: The Basic Economic Perspective on Education |
Borjas, George. Labor Economics. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2005, chapter 7, pp. 220-241. ISBN: 0072871776. |
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When Did Earnings Become so Dependent on Education? |
Freeman, Richard B. The Overeducated American. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1976, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 012267250X.
Krueger, Alan B. "Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing." Paper to the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section, Princeton, NJ, April 16, 2002, pp. 1-10 only and related tables. (PDF) |
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Reconsideration: What Are We Measuring When We Measure the Return to an Individual's Education: Knowledge? A Signal? A Genetic Endowment? |
Akerlof, George. "The Market for 'Lemons': Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism." Quarterly Journal of Economics 89 (August 1970): 488-500.
Murnane, Richard J., John Willett, and Frank Levy. "The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination." Review of Economics and Statistics 77, no. 2 (May 1995): 251-266.
Duflo, Esther. "Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment." American Economic Review 91, no. 4 (September 2001): 795-813. |
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Why has the Rate of Return to Education Increased? |
Freeman, Richard B. "Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 15-32.
Levy, Frank, and Richard J. Murnane. "Computers, Offshoring, and Skills." Working paper. September 18, 2005.
Bransford, John, Ann Brown, and Rodney Cocking, eds. "How Experts Differ from Novices." Chapter 2 in How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000. ISBN: 0309070368.
Murray, Nick. "Planning for the Five Great Goals of Life." Chapter 8 in The Excellent Investment Advisor. Self-published, 1996. |
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School Reform - Where Should You Put Your Money? |
Mosle, Sara. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Education." The New Republic, (June 17, 1996): 27-36.
Heckman, James. "Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation." NBER Working Papers 11142. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., February 2005.
Krueger, Alan B. "Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing." Paper to the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section, Princeton, NJ, April 16, 2002, pp. 11-29 only and related tables. (PDF)
Anderson, Michael. "Uncovering Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of Abecedarian, Perry Preschool and Early Training Projects." Working paper. Cambridge, MA: MIT Department of Economics, November 2005, pp 1-7, 11-21.
ACT. "Crisis at the Core: Preparing All Students for College and Work." ACT Policy Alert. Iowa City, IA: Act, Inc., 2004, pp. 1-30. (PDF) |
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Did More Money Used to Mean Better Schools? Does it Now? |
Hanushek, Eric A. "Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance: An Update." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 19, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 141-164.
Powell, Arthur G., Eleanor Farrar and David K. Cohen. "Treaties." Chapter 2 in The Shopping Mall High School: Winners and Losers in the Educational Market Place. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. ISBN: 0395379040.
Murnane, Richard J., and Frank Levy. "Evidence from Fifteen Schools in Austin Texas." Chapter 4 in Does Money Matter? Edited by Gary Burtless. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. ISBN: 0815712758.
Krueger, Alan B. "Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 2 (May 1999): 497-532. |
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Midterm Exam |
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School Vouchers and Parental Choice |
Murnane, Richard J. "The Role of Markets in American K-12 Education." In The Limits of Market Organization. Edited by Richard R. Nelson. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005, pp. 161-184. ISBN: 0871546264.
Hoxby, Carolyn M. "Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?" American Economic Review 90, no. 5 (December 2000): 1209-1239.
Rothstein, Jesse. "...A Comment on Hoxby." NBER Working Papers 11215. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., pp. 1-5 and 14-18.
Rouse, Cecillia. "Schools and Student Achievement: More Evidence from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program." FRBNY Economic Policy Review 4 (1998): 61-76. |
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School Vouchers (cont.) |
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School Standards and Assessments |
Browse the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll on the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools, in particular Tables 1-4.
Clotfelter, Charles T., and Helen F. Ladd. "Recognizing and Rewarding Success in Public Schools." Chapter 2 in Holding Schools Accountable. Edited by Helen Ladd. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. ISBN: 0815751036.
Jacob, Brian. "The Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Chicago." NBER Working Papers 8968. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., pp. 3-15, 17-21, 33-39, and 40-44. |
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Teacher Quality and Teacher Training |
Ballou, Dale, and Michael Podgursky. "Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Public and Private Schools." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 17, no. 3 (1998).
Kane, Thomas J., and Douglas O. Staiger. "Using Imperfect Information to Identify Effective Teachers." Manuscript, April 25, 2005.
Loeb, Susanna, and Marianne E. Page. "Examining the Link Between Teacher Wages and Student Outcomes: The Importance of Alternative Labor Market Opportunities and Non-Pecuniary Variation." Review of Economics and Statistics 82, no. 3 (August 2000): 393-408.
Elmore, Richard F. "Investing in Teacher Learning: Staff Development and Instructional Improvement in Community School District #2, New York City." Paper prepared for the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, August 1997.
Angrist, Joshua D., and Victor Lavy, "Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools." NBER Working Papers W6781. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., November 1998 (skim). |
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Teacher Quality (cont.) |
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Minority Group Performance |
Jencks, Christopher, and Meredith Phillips, eds. The Black-White Test Score Gap. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998, Chapter 1. ISBN: 0815746091.
Card, David, and Alan B. Krueger. "School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Autumn 1996, pp. 31-50.
Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor. "Who Teaches Whom? Race and the Distribution of Novice Teachers." Working Paper, Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, 2003. (PDF) |
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Teaching and Technology |
Roschelle, Jeremy, et al. "Changing How and What Children Learn in School with Computer Based Technologies." Children and Computer Technology 10, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2000): 76-101.
Klopfer, Eric, and Kurt Squire. "Environmental Detectives - The Development of an Augmented Reality Platform for Environmental Simulations." Forthcoming in Educational Technology Research and Development.
Burstein, Jill, et al. "CriterionSM Online Essay Evaluation: An Application for Automated Evaluation of Student Essays." Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, August, 2003. (PDF) |
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Issues in Higher Education |
Dynarski, Sue. "Building the Stock of College Educated Labor," NBER Working Paper 11604. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., September 2004, pp. 1-39 and associated tables.
Winston, Gordon. "Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education." Journal of Economic Perspectives 13, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 13-36.
Kane, Thomas, and Cecilia Rouse. "The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin Between College and Work." Journal of Economic Perspectives 13, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 63-84. |
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Conclusion and Wrap Up |
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