04178oam 2200793Ia 450 991077776900332120190503073340.00-262-29221-11-282-09897-797866120989700-262-28638-61-4294-7969-8(CKB)1000000000472989(EBL)3338725(OCoLC)156909199(SSID)ssj0000241967(PQKBManifestationID)11217919(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241967(PQKBWorkID)10300439(PQKB)11431317(MiAaPQ)EBC3338725(OCoLC)156909199(OCoLC)648325736(OCoLC)743198317(OCoLC)764480167(OCoLC)815776604(OCoLC)961527719(OCoLC)962582543(OCoLC)988417253(OCoLC)992080572(OCoLC)992108147(OCoLC)1037536419(OCoLC)1037942990(OCoLC)1038645167(OCoLC)1055393544(OCoLC)1058144938(OCoLC)1066432528(OCoLC)1081209687(OCoLC)1088908460(OCoLC-P)156909199(MaCbMITP)6051(Au-PeEL)EBL3338725(CaPaEBR)ebr10190470(CaONFJC)MIL209897(EXLCZ)99100000000047298920070723d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSchools and the equal opportunity problem /edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. PetersonCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20071 online resource (339 p.)CESifo seminar seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-262-23257-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Education12 The Impact of Perceived Public-School Quality on Private-School Choice in ItalyContributors; IndexLeading 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.CESifo seminar series.Educational equalizationEuropeCongressesEducational equalizationUnited StatesCongressesEducational changeEuropeCongressesEducational changeUnited StatesCongressesEqualityEuropeCongressesEqualityUnited StatesCongressesECONOMICS/Political EconomySOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & LawEducational equalizationEducational equalizationEducational changeEducational changeEqualityEquality379.2/6Woessmann Ludger1509384Peterson Paul E129802OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910777769003321Schools and the equal opportunity problem3803266UNINA