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Education economics

Index Education economics

Education economics or the economics of education is the study of economic issues relating to education, including the demand for education, the financing and provision of education, and the comparative efficiency of various educational programs and policies. [1]

72 relations: Adam Gamoran, Basic education, Bridget Terry Long, Brookings Institution, Bruce Sacerdote, Capital (economics), Caroline Hoxby, Charles T. Clotfelter, Claudia Goldin, Costas Meghir, Credentialism and educational inflation, Cultural capital, David Canning, David Card, David E. Bloom, Developed country, Douglas Staiger, Early childhood education, Earnings, Economy, Education, Education policy, Eric Hanushek, Europe, European Union, Expense, Externality, Gary Burtless, Geraint Johnes, Grade inflation, Gross domestic product, High school movement, Higher education, Human capital, Income, Investment, James Heckman, James Samuel Coleman, Jere Behrman, Jesse Rothstein, Joshua Angrist, Journal of Economic Literature, Labour economics, Lawrence F. Katz, Lawrence Mishel, Ludger Wößmann, Mark Blaug, Parag Pathak, Paul Glewwe, Philip Oreopoulos, ..., Princeton University Press, Production function, Productivity, Public sector, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Return on investment, Richard Murnane, School, School voucher, Screening (economics), Sherwin Rosen, Signalling (economics), Standardized test, State school, Stephen Machin, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Thomas Kane (economist), United States, Value (economics), Victor Lavy, Wage, World Bank. Expand index (22 more) »

Adam Gamoran

Adam Gamoran (born 1957) is an American sociologist.

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Basic education

According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), basic education comprises the two stages primary education and lower secondary education.

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Bridget Terry Long

Bridget Terry Long is the Saris Professor of Education and Economics and the former Academic Dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution is a century-old American research group on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C. It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.

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Bruce Sacerdote

Bruce Sacerdote is an American economist and the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics at Dartmouth College, where he "enjoy working with detailed data to enhance our understanding of why children and youth turn out the way they do.

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Capital (economics)

In economics, capital consists of an asset that can enhance one's power to perform economically useful work.

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Caroline Hoxby

Caroline Minter Hoxby (born 1966) is an American economist whose research focuses on issues in education and public economics.

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Charles T. Clotfelter

Charles T. Clotfelter (born August 20, 1947) is an economist and the Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he has taught since 1979.

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Claudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin (born May 14, 1946) is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Development of the American Economy program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Costas Meghir

Konstantinos "Costas" Meghir (Κωνσταντίνος (Κώστας) Εκτώρ Δημήτριος Μεγήρ, transcr. Konstantinos Ektor Dimitrios Meghir, born February 13, 1959) is a Greek/British economist.

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Credentialism and educational inflation

Credentialism and educational inflation are any of a number of related processes involving increased demands for formal educational qualifications, and the devaluation of these qualifications.

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Cultural capital

In sociology, cultural capital consists of the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech and dress, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society.

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David Canning

David Canning is a British economist.

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David Card

David Edward Card (born 1956) is a Canadian labour economist and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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David E. Bloom

David E. Bloom (born October 16, 1955) is an American author, professor, economist, and demographer.

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Developed country

A developed country, industrialized country, more developed country, or "more economically developed country" (MEDC), is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.

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Douglas Staiger

Douglas O. Staiger is the John French Professor in Economics at Dartmouth College.

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Early childhood education

Early childhood education (ECE; also nursery education) is a branch of education theory which relates to the teaching of older children (formally and informally) up until the age of about eighteen (birth to Grade 2).

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Earnings

Earnings are the net benefits of a corporation's operation.

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Economy

An economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents.

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Education

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

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Education policy

Education policy consists of the principles and government policies in the educational sphere as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems.

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Eric Hanushek

Eric Alan Hanushek (born May 22, 1943) is an economist who has written prolifically on public policy with a special emphasis on the economics of education.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Expense

In common usage, an expense or expenditure is an outflow of money to another person or group to pay for an item or service, or for a category of costs.

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Externality

In economics, an externality is the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.

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Gary Burtless

Gary Burtless (born April 11, 1950) is an American economist.

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Geraint Johnes

Geraint Johnes is Professor of Economics at Lancaster University Management School.

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Grade inflation

Grade inflation is used in two senses: (1) grading leniency: the awarding of higher grades than students deserve, which yields a higher average grade given to students (2) the tendency to award progressively higher academic grades for work that would have received lower grades in the past.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

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High school movement

The high school movement is a term used in educational history literature to describe the era from 1910 to 1940 during which secondary schools sprouted across the United States.

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Higher education

Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

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Human capital

Human capital is a term popularized by Gary Becker, an economist and Nobel Laureate from the University of Chicago, and Jacob Mincer.

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Income

Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.

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Investment

In general, to invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future – for example, investment in durable goods, in real estate by the service industry, in factories for manufacturing, in product development, and in research and development.

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James Heckman

James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist who is currently at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Director of the.

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James Samuel Coleman

James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.

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Jere Behrman

Jere Richard Behrman (born March 2, 1940) is a U.S. American economist and the William R. Kenan, Jr.

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Jesse Rothstein

Jesse Rothstein is an economist, and currently Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Joshua Angrist

Joshua David Angrist (born September 18, 1960) is an Israeli American economist.

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Journal of Economic Literature

The Journal of Economic Literature is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published by the American Economic Association, that surveys the academic literature in economics.

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Labour economics

Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.

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Lawrence F. Katz

Lawrence Francis Katz (born 1959) is Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Lawrence Mishel

Lawrence Mishel is distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., a pro-labor think-tank that seeks to advance the interests of American workers.

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Ludger Wößmann

Ludger Wößmann (born in Sendenhorst on July 1, 1973) is a German economist and professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).

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Mark Blaug

Mark Blaug FBA (3 April 1927 – 18 November 2011) was a Dutch-born British economist (naturalised in 1982), who covered a broad range of topics during his long career.

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Parag Pathak

Parag A. Pathak (born c. 1980) is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research where he co-founded and directs the working group on market design.

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Paul Glewwe

Paul William Glewwe (born April 4, 1958) is an economist and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota.

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Philip Oreopoulos

Philip Oreopoulos is an economist who currently serves as Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Production function

In economics, a production function relates quantities of physical output of a production process to quantities of physical inputs or production function refers as the expression of the technological relation between physical inputs and outputs of the goods.

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Productivity

Productivity describes various measures of the efficiency of production.

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Public sector

The public sector (also called the state sector) is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises.

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Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press.

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Return on investment

Return on investment (ROI) is the ratio between the net profit and cost of investment resulting from an investment of some resource.

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Richard Murnane

Richard Murnane (born 1945) is an economist and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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School

A school is an institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers.

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School voucher

A school voucher, also called an education voucher, in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for a student at a school chosen by the student or the student's parents.

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Screening (economics)

Screening in economics refers to a strategy of combating adverse selection, one of the potential decision-making complications in cases of asymmetric information, by the agent(s) with less information.

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Sherwin Rosen

Sherwin Rosen (September 29, 1938 – March 17, 2001) was an American labor economist.

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Signalling (economics)

In contract theory, signalling (or signaling; see spelling differences) is the idea that one party (termed the agent) credibly conveys some information about itself to another party (the principal).

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Standardized test

A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner.

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State school

State schools (also known as public schools outside England and Wales)In England and Wales, some independent schools for 13- to 18-year-olds are known as 'public schools'.

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Stephen Machin

Stephen Jonathan Machin (born 23 December 1962) is a British economist and professor of economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).

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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008), 2nd ed., is an eight-volume reference work on economics, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume and published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Thomas Kane (economist)

Thomas Joseph Kane (born September 5, 1961) is a U.S.-American education economist who currently holds the position of Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Value (economics)

Economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a good or service to an economic agent.

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Victor Lavy

Victor Chaim Lavy is an Israeli economist and professor at the University of Warwick and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Wage

A wage is monetary compensation (or remuneration, personnel expenses, labor) paid by an employer to an employee in exchange for work done.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_economics

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