Human capital and rates of return / George Psacharopoulos and Harry Anthony Patrinos --
Signalling and screening / Sarah Brown and John G. Sessions --
The economic assessment of training schemes / Peter J. Dolton --
Education and economic growth / Philip Stevens and Martin Weale --
Skill-biased technical change and educational outcomes / Stephen Machin --
The social and external benefits of education / Walter W. McMahon --
School finance / David Mitch --
Funding higher education / David Greenaway and Michelle Haynes --
Exploring the effect of class size on student achievement : what have we learned over the past two decades? / Susan L. Averett and Michele C. McLennan --
The economics of secondary schooling / Steve Bradley and Jim Taylor --
Determinants of educational success in higher education / Robin A. Naylor and Jeremy Smith --
Standards and grade inflation / Geraint Johnes --
The school-to-work transition / Steve Bradley and Anh Ngoc Nguyen --
The labour market for reachers / Paulo Santiago --
Multi-product cost functions for universities : economies of scale and scope / Elchanan Cohn and Samuel T. Cooper --
Efficiency measurement / Jill Johnes --
Education, child labour and development / Saqib Jafarey and Sajal Lahiri --
Education and housing / William H. Hoyt.

Surveys the field of the economics of education. This work comprises contributions on a range of topics from a review of human capital, signalling and screening models, to consideration of issues such as educational externalities and economic growth, funding models, determinants of educational success, and more.