LEADER 04140nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910452358403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-29221-1 010 $a1-282-09897-7 010 $a9786612098970 010 $a0-262-28638-6 010 $a1-4294-7969-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472989 035 $a(EBL)3338725 035 $a(OCoLC)156909199 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000241967 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217919 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241967 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10300439 035 $a(PQKB)11431317 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338725 035 $a(OCoLC)156909199$z(OCoLC)648325736$z(OCoLC)743198317$z(OCoLC)764480167$z(OCoLC)815776604$z(OCoLC)961527719$z(OCoLC)962582543$z(OCoLC)988417253$z(OCoLC)992080572$z(OCoLC)992108147$z(OCoLC)1037536419$z(OCoLC)1037942990$z(OCoLC)1038645167$z(OCoLC)1055393544$z(OCoLC)1058144938$z(OCoLC)1066432528$z(OCoLC)1081209687$z(OCoLC)1088908460 035 $a(OCoLC-P)156909199 035 $a(MaCbMITP)6051 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338725 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190470 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL209897 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472989 100 $a20061004d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSchools and the equal opportunity problem$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (339 p.) 225 1 $aCESifo seminar series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-23257-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSeries 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? 327 $a7 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 327 $a12 The Impact of Perceived Public-School Quality on Private-School Choice in ItalyContributors; Index 330 $aLeading researchers from the United States and Europe report on new findings on the effect of education on equal opportunity, using economic and statistical techniques to assess the results of education policy reform in countries including the United Stat. 410 0$aCESifo seminar series. 606 $aEducational equalization$zEurope$vCongresses 606 $aEducational equalization$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aEducational change$zEurope$vCongresses 606 $aEducational change$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aEquality$zEurope$vCongresses 606 $aEquality$zUnited States$vCongresses 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEducational equalization 615 0$aEducational equalization 615 0$aEducational change 615 0$aEducational change 615 0$aEquality 615 0$aEquality 676 $a379.2/6 701 $aWoessmann$b Ludger$0858685 701 $aPeterson$b Paul E$0129802 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452358403321 996 $aSchools and the equal opportunity problem$92206888 997 $aUNINA