Schools and the equal opportunity problem / edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woessmann, Ludger.

Peterson, Paul E.

Series:

CESifo seminar series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--Europe--Congresses.

Educational equalization.

Educational equalization--United States--Congresses.

Equality.

United States.

Educational change--Europe--Congresses.

Educational change.

Europe.

Educational change--United States--Congresses.

Equality--Europe--Congresses.

Equality--United States--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]

Contents:

I The Problem 1

1 Introduction: Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem / Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmann 3

2 Education Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility in Britain / Stephen Machin 29

3 Education and Earnings over the Life Cycle: Longitudinal Age-Earnings Profiles from Sweden / Sofia Sandgren 51

II Solutions A: Change the Peer Group? 71

4 Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools / Jacob Vigdor, Thomas Nechyba 73

5 The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in UK Secondary Schools / Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Anna Vignoles 103

6 The Optimal Timing of School Tracking: A General Model with Calibration for Germany / Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini, Kenn Ariga 129

III Solutions B: Refocus Resources? 157

7 Some U.S. Evidence on How the Distribution of Educational Outcomes Can Be Changed / Eric A. Hanushek 159

8 The Effectiveness of Human-Capital Policies for Disadvantaged Groups in the Netherlands / Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek 191

9 Equalizing Opportunity for Racial and Socioeconomic Groups in the United States through Educational-Finance Reform / Julian R. Betts, John E. Roemer 209

IV Solutions or Aggravations? Standards and Choice 239

10 Educational Reform and Disadvantaged Students in the United States / John H. Bishop, Ferran Mane 241

11 The Impact of School Choice on Sorting by Ability and Socioeconomic Factors in English Secondary Education / Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell, Carol Propper, Deborah Wilson 273

12 The Impact of Perceived Public-School Quality on Private-School Choice in Italy / Daniele Checchi, Tullio Jappelli 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

026223257X

9780262232579

OCLC:

74460539