Band 319
Schooling and the Quality of Human Capital
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Kieler Studien - Kiel Studies
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
23.08.2014
Verlag
Springer BerlinSeitenzahl
228
Maße (L/B/H)
24.4/17/1.4 cm
Gewicht
442 g
Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-662-42586-2
This book presents a thorough economic analysis of both the determinants and the consequences of international differences in schooling quality. It is shown that cross-country differences in quality-adjusted human capital can account for a substantial part of the international variation in economic development. However, large increases in per-student spending over recent decades were not matched by increases in student achievement in most countries. In a simple principal-agent model, the book stresses the importance of institutional features of the schooling system such as central examinations, school autonomy, and private-sector competition. Microeconometric estimations based on data for more than a quarter of a million students reveal that international differences in these institutions, rather than differences in resources, can explain the large international differences in schooling quality.
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