Economics of Education Review
Volume 20, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 6
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The effects of state political interests and campus outputs on public university revenues
Robert C. Lowry
Using data for 428 individual campuses in all 50 states, I show that state government funding and tuition and fee revenues at public universities depend on both political and economic factors.... More
pp. 105-119
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Dynamic rates of return to education in the U.S
Omar Arias & Walter W McMahon
This paper develops dynamic and expected dynamic rates of return to high school and college education for males and females for 1967–95 that take the effects of annual changes in institutional... More
pp. 121-138
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Youth transition from school to work in Spain
Gérard Lassibille, Lucı́a Navarro Gómez, Isabel Aguilar Ramos & Carolina de la O Sánchez
Using a data set drawn from the "Encuesta Socio-Demográfica" conducted by the "Instituto Nacional de Estadı́stica" in 1991, we analyze the labor market entrance of Spanish school leavers and the... More
pp. 139-149
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Transfer from two-year to four-year college: an analysis of gender differences
Brian J Surette
Nearly one-third of all students who attend a two-year college transfer to a four-year college by the time they turn 25. This paper demonstrates that women are less likely than men to transfer, and... More
pp. 151-163
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Educational attainment and the gender wage gap: evidence from the 1986 and 1991 Canadian censuses
Pamela Christie & Michael Shannon
The paper takes advantage of the detailed information on educational attainment and field of study provided in the Canadian Census to examine gender differences in educational attainment and the... More
pp. 165-180
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Post-school-age training among women: training methods and labor market outcomes at older ages
Elizabeth T. Hill
This study uses the NLS Mature Women's Cohort to examine labor market effects of education and training on women at pre-retirement ages, comparing training methods: formal education, on-the-job... More
pp. 181-191