"Economics can be a lens for understanding the behaviour of schools, districts, states, and nations in meeting education needs of their populaces, as well as for understanding the individual decisions made by administrators, teachers, and students. Insights from economics help decision makers at the state level understand how to raise and distribute funds for public schools in an equitable manner for both schools and taxpayers. This encyclopedia contains over 300 entries by experts in the field that cover these issues and more."--[Source inconnue].
The 70 contributors are each well-regarded economists whose research has advanced the topic on which they write, and this book fulfills an undersupplied niche for a text in the economics of education.
This new Encyclopedia draws upon articles in The International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition (described by Choice as being "a premier resource when judged on virtually every criteria applied to...
Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention ...
This book is a survey of the principal aspects of the economics of education, such as the demand for education as consumption and as an investment, good education and economic growth, education and manpower needs, and the finance of ...
This is not surprising, given the pattern of decreased public funding and increased student cost over this period.
The Economics and Financing of Education
Higher Education Finance Research: Policy, Politics, and Practice fills that void. The book is structured in four parts.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the modern economics of education literature, bringing together a series of original contributions by globally renowned experts in their fields.
24 MAKING MONEY MATTER used to frame the issues and their consequences rather than to obtain conclusive evidence on what ... Concomitantly, we have the responsibility, as Levin pointed out, to consider where, along with social science ...
School Finance: The Economics and Politics of Public Education