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Equality of education opportunity revisited

New England Economic Review , Issue May , Pages 87-114

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School accountability and student performance - commentary

Regional Economic Development , Issue Mar , Pages 70-74

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Moving beyond the 13th grade

Two-year colleges still battle an inferiority complex, despite strong enrollment growth and relevance in today's economy.
Fedgazette , Volume 16 , Issue Jul , Pages 1-2, 4

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Service-sector wages: the importance of education

A study of how education affects wages in the manufacturing and service sectors, concluding that higher levels of basic education are necessary in order for both displaced manufacturing workers and new labor-force entrants to compete in the rapidly growing service sector.
Economic Commentary , Issue Dec

Global Perspectives: Tom Luce on Public Service, Education Reform

Luce and Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan discussed his career in law and public service, his decision to become a lawyer and the key challenges facing the U.S. education system.
Dallas Fed Economics

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Experiments in education: what's working in your town?

Forefront , Issue Fall , Pages 1

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Endogenous expenditures on public schools and persistent growth

In this paper, we present a model where individuals accumulate human capital through the formal schooling. To take into account the large involvement of the public sector in education we introduce a government which collects taxes from households and provides inputs to the learning technology. In our model the public expenditures on schools and growth rates are determined endogenously. Under plausible restrictions on the parameters of our model, we show that the predictions of our model qualitatively match the observations on per capita income, years of schooling, public expenditures on ...
Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics , Paper 85

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Stop paying more for less: ways to boost productivity in higher education

College tuition has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet few think the quality of graduates has kept up. Decentralizing the administration and privatizing such things as housing and food service would boost productivity, as would ditching tenure and improving teaching.
The Regional Economist , Issue Jan , Pages 4-9

Black Workers, Mothers Leaving Early Education and Child Care Jobs amid Health Risks, Low Pay

Understanding which teachers were likelier to leave the industry over the past two years and the factors that could have influenced their decision to leave are at the heart of this study.
Dallas Fed Communities

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New England's educational advantage: past successes and future prospects

Any enumeration of New England's competitive strengths is likely to include the high education levels of its work force. The growing availability of highly educated workers in the region has permitted the development of industries that make use of advanced skills and raised the average standard of living during the past several decades. This article investigates the sources of New England's educational advantage historically, examines recent trends in key determinants, and discusses prospects for the future. ; The author presents the basic facts on educational attainment in New England and ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Jan , Pages 25-40

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