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Schools and the equal opportunity problem /

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Schools and the equal opportunity problem /

[Book]

edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson.

Cambridge, Mass. :

MIT Press,

©2007.

1 online resource (vi, 327 pages) :

illustrations

CESifo seminar series

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : schools and the equal opportunity problem / Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann -- Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britain / Stephen Machin -- Education and earnings over the life cycle : longitudinal age-earnings profiles from Sweden / Sofia Sandgren -- Peer effects in North Carolina public schools / Jacob Vigdor and Thomas Nechyba -- The heterogeneous effect of selection in UK secondary schools / Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles -- The optimal timing of school tracking : a general model with calibration for Germany / Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini, and Kenn Ariga -- Some U.S. evidence on how the distribution of educational outcomes can be changed / Eric A. Hanushek -- The effectiveness of human-capital policies for disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands / Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek -- Equalizing opportunity for racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States through educational-finance reform / Julian R. Betts and John E. Roemer -- Educational reform and disadvantaged students in the United States / John H. Bishop and Ferran Mane -- The impact of school choice on sorting by ability and socioeconomic factors in English secondary education / Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson -- The impact of perceived public-school quality on private-school choice in Italy / Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappelli.

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Leading researchers from the United States and Europe report on new findings on the effect of education on equal opportunity, using economic and statistical techniques to assess the results of education policy reform in countries including the United Stat.

MIT Press

MIT Press

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Schools and the equal opportunity problem.

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Educational change-- Europe, Congresses.

Educational change-- United States, Congresses.

Educational equalization-- Europe, Congresses.

Educational equalization-- United States, Congresses.

Equality-- Europe, Congresses.

Equality-- United States, Congresses.

EDUCATION-- Administration-- General.

EDUCATION-- Educational Policy & Reform-- General.

Educational change.

Educational equalization.

Equality.

Europe.

United States.

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Peterson, Paul E.

Woessmann, Ludger.

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