| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Schools and the equal opportunity problem/ edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson. |
| other author: |
Peterson, Paul E. |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :MIT Press, : c2007., |
| Description: |
vi, 327 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
CESifo seminar series |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction : schools and the equal opportunity problem / Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann -- Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britain/ Stephen Machin -- Education and earnings over the life cycle : longitudinal age-earnings profiles from Sweden / Sofia Sandgren -- Peer effects in North Carolina public schools/ Jacob Vigdor and Thomas Nechyba -- The heterogeneous effect of selection in UK secondary schools / Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles -- The optimal timing of school tracking : a general model with calibration for Germany/ Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini, and Kenn Ariga -- Some U.S. evidence on how the distribution of educational outcomes can be changed / Eric A. Hanushek -- The effectiveness of human-capital policies for disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands/ Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek -- Equalizing opportunity for racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States through educational-finance reform/ Julian R. Betts and John E. Roemer -- Educational reform and disadvantaged students in the United States / John H. Bishop and Ferran Mane -- The impact of school choice on sorting by ability and socioeconomic factors in English secondary education/ Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson -- The impact of perceived public-school quality on private-school choice in Italy / Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappelli. |
| Subject: |
Educational change - Congresses. - Europe - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=190981An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1429479698 (electronic bk.) |