A textbook providing academically rigorous yet clear explanations of the economics and politics driving today's educational systems and how economists analyze them. This essential text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in economics, public policy, and education covers all major topics and is packed with international examples.
A textbook providing academically rigorous yet clear explanations of the economics and politics driving today's educational systems and how economists analyze them. This essential text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in economics, public policy, and education covers all major topics and is packed with international examples.
Martin Carnoy is the Lemann Foundation Chair of Education and Economics at Stanford University. He began five decades in the economics of education field studying under Theodore Schultz at the University of Chicago in the early sixties. Since then, he has been engaged in almost every major debate in the field, authoring over forty books and countless articles analyzing educational policy and systems on every continent and developing new frameworks and ways of measuring the process of education. International in outlook, Martin Carnoy has been awarded honorary doctorates around the world. Co-director of the Lemann Center at Stanford, and a former president of the Comparative and International Education Society, Carnoy is also a fellow of the National Academy of Education and of the International Academy of Education.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. The political economy of education 2. The contribution of the economics of education to education policy 3. The state and education Part II. Human Capital: 4. Education, labor markets, and earnings 5. Age-earnings profiles and the returns to human capital 6. Measuring the returns to investment in education according to the human capital model Part III. Alternatives to Human Capital: 7. Alternative conceptions of the relation between skill acquisition and productivity 8. Conditioned choice and discrimination Part IV. Education, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution: 9. Education and economic growth 10. Education and income distribution Part V. Educational Production Functions: 11. Underlying issues in educational production functions 12. Modeling and estimating educational production functions 13. Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis 14. Issues in early childhood education 15. Issues in the production of vocational education Part VI. Teacher Labor Markets: 16. Fundamental elements in the study of teacher labor markets 17. The supply of and demand for teachers 18. Teacher salaries 19. The politics of teacher labor markets Part VII. School System Accountability: 20. Public sector accountability 21. Market accountability Part VIII. Financing Education: 22. Educational spending 23. Collecting and allocating revenue for education 24. More spending on education, improved student achievement, and other student outcomes Part IX. The Political Economy of Higher Education: 25. Higher educational expansion as a global phenomenon 26. The financing of higher education 27. Higher education as an industry 28. Academic labor markets and student college choice strategies References Index.
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. The political economy of education 2. The contribution of the economics of education to education policy 3. The state and education Part II. Human Capital: 4. Education, labor markets, and earnings 5. Age-earnings profiles and the returns to human capital 6. Measuring the returns to investment in education according to the human capital model Part III. Alternatives to Human Capital: 7. Alternative conceptions of the relation between skill acquisition and productivity 8. Conditioned choice and discrimination Part IV. Education, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution: 9. Education and economic growth 10. Education and income distribution Part V. Educational Production Functions: 11. Underlying issues in educational production functions 12. Modeling and estimating educational production functions 13. Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis 14. Issues in early childhood education 15. Issues in the production of vocational education Part VI. Teacher Labor Markets: 16. Fundamental elements in the study of teacher labor markets 17. The supply of and demand for teachers 18. Teacher salaries 19. The politics of teacher labor markets Part VII. School System Accountability: 20. Public sector accountability 21. Market accountability Part VIII. Financing Education: 22. Educational spending 23. Collecting and allocating revenue for education 24. More spending on education, improved student achievement, and other student outcomes Part IX. The Political Economy of Higher Education: 25. Higher educational expansion as a global phenomenon 26. The financing of higher education 27. Higher education as an industry 28. Academic labor markets and student college choice strategies References Index.
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