Current Issue of Economics of Education Review

Here are the articles in the August 2010 issue of Economics of Education Review

1. Low-income students and highly selective private colleges: Geography, searching, and recruiting
by Catharine B. Hill and Gordon C. Winston.
2. What’s the value of an acceptance letter? Using admissions data to estimate the return to college
by Björn Öckert
3. Early decision and college performance
by Elizabeth J. Jensen & Stephen Wu.
4. Educational disparity and the persistence of the black-white wage gap in the U.S.
by Melanie O'Gorman.
5. Faculty employment at 4-year colleges and universities
by Liang Zhang and Xiangmin Liu.
6. Does price matter? Overseas students in UK higher education
by Kwok Tong Soo and Caroline Elliott.
7. Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom experiment
by Carlos Dobkin, Ricard Gil and Justin Marion.
8. Birth order, family size and educational attainment
by Monique de Haan.
9. Measuring efficiency of Tunisian schools in the presence of quasi-fixed inputs: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis approach
by Hédi Essid, Pierre Ouellette and Stéphane Vigeant.
10. Redistributive taxation vs. education subsidies: Fostering equality and social mobility in an intergenerational model
by Andrea Schneider.
11. Returns to overeducation: A longitudinal analysis of the U.S. labor market
by Yuping Tsai.
12. Child care subsidies and child development
by Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin.
13. School assignment, school choice and social mobility
by Simon Burgess and Adam Briggs.
14. The economic returns to field of study and competencies among higher education graduates in Ireland
by Elish Kelly, Philip J. O'Connell and Emer Smyth.
15. Teacher hiring practices and educational efficiency
by Linn Renée Naper.
16. Transforming public schools: Impact of the CRI program on child learning in Pakistan
by Muhammad Farooq Naseer, Manasa Patnam, Reehana R. Raza.