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020 _a9781847201966
028 _aVariety Books Publishers Distributors
_b;B-10,Street No-2,West Vinod Nagar,Delhi-110092
_c;IM2102
_d;31/08/2018
082 _a338.4737 JOH
100 _aGeraint Johnes
_a; Jill Johnes
245 _aInternational handbook on the economics of education
_c/Geraint Johnes
260 _aCheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA
_b: Edward Elgar
_c, ©2004.
300 _axii, 860 pages
_b: illustrations
_c; 25 cm.
365 _b4814
490 _aElgar original reference
505 _a 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.
520 _aSurveys 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.
650 _aEconomics
655 _aEducation--Economic aspects
700 _aJill Johnes
942 _cBOOK