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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777769003321

Titolo

Schools and the equal opportunity problem / / edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007

ISBN

0-262-29221-1

1-282-09897-7

9786612098970

0-262-28638-6

1-4294-7969-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Collana

CESifo seminar series

Altri autori (Persone)

WoessmannLudger

PetersonPaul E

Disciplina

379.2/6

Soggetti

Educational equalization - Europe

Educational equalization - United States

Educational change - Europe

Educational change - United States

Equality - Europe

Equality - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; I The Problem; 1 Introduction: Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem; 2 Education Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility in Britain; 3 Education and Earnings over the Life Cycle: Longitudinal Age-Earnings Profiles from Sweden; II Solutions A: Change the Peer Group?; 4 Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools; 5 The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in UK Secondary Schools; 6 The Optimal Timing of School Tracking: A General Model with Calibration for Germany; III Solutions B: Refocus Resources?

7 Some U.S. Evidence on How the Distribution of Educational Outcomes Can Be Changed 8 The Effectiveness of Human-Capital Policies for Disadvantaged Groups in the Netherlands; 9 Equalizing Opportunity for Racial and Socioeconomic Groups in the United States through



Educational-Finance Reform; IV Solutions or Aggravations? Standards and Choice; 10 Educational Reform and Disadvantaged Students in the United States; 11 The Impact of School Choice on Sorting by Ability and Socioeconomic Factors in English Secondary Education

12 The Impact of Perceived Public-School Quality on Private-School Choice in ItalyContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.