Schools and the equal opportunity problem / edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson.

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Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2007.
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300 |a vi, 327 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
440 0 |a CESifo seminar series 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |g I.  |t The problem --  |g 1.  |t Introduction : schools and the equal opportunity problem /  |r Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann --  |g 2.  |t Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britain /  |r Stephen Machin --  |g 3.  |t Education and earnings over the life cycle : longitudinal age earnings profiles from Sweden /  |r Sofia Sandgren --  |g II.  |t Solutions A : change the peer group? --  |g 4.  |t Peer effects in North Carolina public schools /  |r Jacob Vigdor and Thomas Nechyba --  |g 5.  |t The heterogeneous effect of selection in UK secondary schools /  |r Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles --  |g 6.  |t The optimal timing of school tracking : a general model with calibration for Germany /  |r Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini and Kenn Ariga --  |g III.  |t Solutions B : refocus resources? --  |g 7.  |t Some U.S. evidence on how the distribution of educational outcomes can be changed /  |r Eric A. Hanushek --  |g 8.  |t The effectiveness of human-capital policies for disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands /  |r Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek --  |g 9.  |t Equalizing opportunity for racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States through educational-finance reform /  |r Julian R. Betts and John E. Roemer --  |g IV.  |t Solutions or aggravations? : standards and choice --  |g 10.  |t Educational reform and disadvantaged students in the United States /  |r John H. Bishop and Ferran Mane --  |g 11.  |t The impact of school choice on sorting by ability and socioeconomic factors in English secondary education /  |r Simon Burgess, Brendan McConnell, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson --  |g 12.  |t The impact of perceived public-school quality on private school choice in Italy /  |r Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappelli. 
650 0 |a Educational equalization  |z Europe  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Educational equalization  |z United States  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Educational change  |z Europe  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Educational change  |z United States  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Equality  |z Europe  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Equality  |z United States  |v Congresses. 
700 1 |a Woessmann, Ludger. 
700 1 |a Peterson, Paul E. 
991 |a 2007-08-24 
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