Economics of Education Review
Volume 23, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 9
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Can students predict starting salaries? Yes!
Dinand Webbink & Joop Hartog
We use Dutch panel data in which students have been asked to state their expected starting salary and confront these with realisations four years later. Both level and structure of expectations and... More
pp. 103-113
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Advanced Placement: do minorities have equal opportunity?
Kristin Klopfenstein
Black and Hispanic high school students enroll in Advanced Placement (AP) courses at approximately half the rate of white students. This paper develops a microeconomic model of the AP participation... More
pp. 115-131
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Adolescent marijuana use and school attendance
M.Christopher Roebuck, Michael T. French & Michael L. Dennis
This paper explores the relationship between adolescent marijuana use and school attendance. Data were pooled from the 1997 and 1998 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse to form a sample of 15 ... More
pp. 133-141
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Do school inspections improve school quality? Ofsted inspections and school examination results in the UK
Leslie Rosenthal
Improving the quality of state-funded secondary school education remains a major explicit policy aim in the UK. The central means by which state-provided education in the UK is now regulated is... More
pp. 143-151
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Anomalies in economics enrollment: 1991–1992 to 1995–1996
Waldo Lombardi, Lall B. Ramrattan & Michael Szenberg
This paper presents data and empirical models to explain the causes of the decline in the enrollment of economics majors during the 1991–1992 to 1995–1996 academic years. It first discusses the... More
pp. 153-165
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Factors affecting initial enrollment intensity: part-time versus full-time enrollment
Leslie S. Stratton, Dennis M. O’Toole & James N. Wetzel
We develop a model derived from human capital theory that explicitly recognizes the role of opportunity costs, particularly employment opportunities, in determining full-time/part-time enrollment... More
pp. 167-175
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Tuition discounting without tears
Robert E. Martin
This paper contains a policy model for tuition discounting that avoids the major financial pitfalls encountered in the administration of institutional scholarships. The dual objective of maximizing... More
pp. 177-189
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Research spillovers among European and North-American economics departments
Pantelis Kalaitzidakis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Andreas Savvides & Thanasis Stengos
In this paper, we investigate the determinants of research output by European economics departments. We use data from a survey we conducted on the various characteristics of these departments. We... More
pp. 191-202
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Seeking every advantage: the phenomenon of taking both the SAT and ACT
M.Kathleen Thomas
Although the SAT has traditionally been the standardized test of choice for Texas students, nearly a third of the college-bound population in 1998 opted to take the ACT in addition to the SAT.... More
pp. 203-208