Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy

• Record Nr.: UNISA996215633303316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Warsaw, Poland : , : DE GRUYTER OPEN
• ISSN: 2385-8052
• Soggetti: Economics; Economic history; Periodicals.; Yugoslavia Economic conditions Periodicals; Yugoslavia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Refereed/Peer-reviewed

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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777769003321
• 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.