Ebook: Economics of education : research and studies

This handbook is organized on a thematic basis which enables the reader more easily to find his or her way around the field. There are sections dealing with the supply side of human capital; the formation of human capital; the formation of human capital; the costs of education; the benefits of education; the financing of education; the relationship between education and employment; the analysis of earnings; income distribution as related to education; education and manpower planning; planning models; longitudinal analyses; and issues of ability and screening. An alphabetical list of entries is included for further guidance and each entry throughout the book contains extensive bibliographies to help the reader who wants to pursue a particular topic. Special care has been taken to include topics such as tracer studies, expected returns to education, measuring school quality, elasticity of substitution between different types of labor, and accounts of educational planning models which are new to the field and have not yet appeared in formal textbooks. We have seen in the last decade the growing importance of economics in many spheres, not least the educational sphere. Thus this handbook is to be strongly recommended not only to specialists in education finance, educational administrators, government agencies, and research corporations involved in educational issues, but to all educational research and indeed to anyone with a general interest in education