Economics of Education Review
Volume 18, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 11
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The Dallas school accountability and incentive program: an evaluation of its impacts on student outcomes
Helen F. Ladd
Consistent with the current emphasis on performance-based accountability in K-12 education, several states and a few local districts have introduced school-based incentive programs. This paper... More
pp. 1-16
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Information and inner city educational attainment
Jens Ludwig
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are analyzed to examine whether adolescents living in low-income urban areas have less accurate information about labor market... More
pp. 17-30
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Cyclical economic conditions and school attendance in Costa Rica
Edward Funkhouser
In this paper, I examine the importance of declining economic conditions in school attendance decisions for households with teenagers aged 12–17 in Costa Rica. I estimate a reduced-form model for... More
pp. 31-50
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Managerial tenure under private and government ownership: the case of higher education
Franklin G. Mixon & Russell W. McKenzie
The present paper offers statistical evidence which suggests that managers of firms in the higher education industry in the United States (universities and colleges) pursue a variety of goals... More
pp. 51-58
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Grades and student evaluations of teachers
Anthony C Krautmann & William Sander
Understanding the relationship between grading practices and student evaluations is especially important in higher education because of the increasing importance of this instrument in the promotion... More
pp. 59-63
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Graduate training and the early career productivity of Ph.D. economists
Thomas C. Buchmueller, Jeff Dominitz & W. Lee Hansen
This paper estimates the relationships among the attributes of graduate economics programs and the occupational choices and publishing proficiency of recent Ph.D.s. The estimates indicate that... More
pp. 65-77
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What determines when undergraduates complete their theses? Evidence from two economics departments
Curt Löfgren & Henry Ohlsson
Most economics students at Uppsala and Umeå do not complete their undergraduate thesis within the intended time. We find that coauthoring, compared to writing alone, increases the probability of... More
pp. 79-88
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The variation in teachers' grading practices: causes and consequences
Hans Bonesrønning
The teachers' grading practices vary a lot between the upper secondary schools in Norway. This paper discusses the causes and the consequences. The point of departure is the model laid out by ,... More
pp. 89-106
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Using variation in schooling availability to estimate educational returns for Honduras
Arjun S. Bedi & Noel Gaston
This paper presents IV estimates of the returns to schooling for Honduran males by exploiting the variation in the availability of schooling at the time individuals were eligible to commence their ... More
pp. 107-116
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Modeling the College Application Decision Process in a Land-Grant University
Stephen L. DesJardins, Halil Dundar & Darwin D. Hendel
Over the past two decades as student recruitment has become increasingly important, numerous studies have examined the college choice process in an attempt to identify factors influencing students'... More
pp. 117-132
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What Do Educational Credentials Signal and Why Do Employers Value Credentials?
Jeremy Arkes
This paper examines whether employers can infer information about workers' pre-college abilities from the college credentials they acquire and whether employers value the attainment of credentials ... More
pp. 133-141
