June 15 - 16, 1998
Mapping The Terrain: Economics and Educational Research
Chicago, Illinois
Most Interesting
Angrist, Joshua and Alan Krueger (1991), Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 56, #4, pp. 979-1014.
Becker, Gary, his famous Woytinsky lecture, later reprinted as an appendix to his book, Human Capital.
Blackburn , McKinley, David E. Bloom and Richard Freeman, "The Declining Economic Position of Less Skilled American Men," in G. Burtless, ed., A Future of Lousy Jobs? The Changing Structure of U.S. Wages, Brookings, Washington, D.C., 1990.
Borjas , George, "Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1992.
Card, David (March 1998), The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings, in Handbook of Labor Economics.
Card, David and Alan Krueger, "Does School Quality Matter?," Journal of Political Eco., 1992.
Frank, Robert and Philip Cook, The Winner Take All Society.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1986), The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools, Journal of Economic Literature, 24, #3, pp. 1141-1177.
Hoxby, Caroline Minter, Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? (1994, NBER Working Paper No. 4979).
Jamison and Lau, 1982 book on education and agricultural efficiency.
Mincer , Jacob, Schooling, Experience and Earnings, Columbia University Press, 1974.
Piore , Michael and Charles Sabel, "Second Industrial Divide".
Romer , Paul M., "Endogenous Technological Change," Journal of Political Economy, October 1990.
Spence, Michael (1973), Job Market Signaling, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Willis, Robert and Sherwin Rosen (1979), Education and Self-Selection, in Journal of Political Economy.
Most Useful
Burtless, Gary, introductory chapter to Does Money Matter?
Clotfelter and Rothschild edited volume, Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education
Clotfelter, Ehrenberg, Getz and Siegfried, Economic Challenges in Higher Education
Griliches, Zvi, Estimating Returns to Schooling: Some Econometric Problems
Freeman, Richard , The Market for College Trained Manpower (1971); The Overeducated American (1976); and Manpower Requirements and Substitution Analysis of Labor Skills: A Synthesis in Research in Labor Economics (1977).
Hanushek, Eric A. (1986), The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools, Journal of Economic Literature, 24, #3, pp. 1141-1177.
Hirschman, Albert (1970), Exit, Voice, and Loyalty.
Krueger, Alan (1997), NBER working paper, Experimental Estimates of Educational Production Functions
Levy, Frank and Richard Murnane, "U.S. Earnings Levels and Earnings Inequality: A Review of Recent Trends and Proposed Explanations," Journal of Economic Literature, September 1992.
Mankiw, N. Gregory, David Romer and David Weil, "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1992.
Manski and Wise, College Choice in America.
Psacharopoulos, George, "Returns to Investment in Education: A Global Update," World Development, 1994.
Rosen, Sherwin (1977), Human Capital: A Survey of Empirical Research, in Research in Labor Economics, Vol 1, pp. 3-40.
Willis, R.J. and S. Rosen (1979), Education and Self-Selection, Journal of Political Economy, 87, pp. S7-S36