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• General concepts of economics of education
• The link between economy and education
• Education, economic growth, and national development
• Education and manpower planning
• The demand for education
• Education and employment
• Financing of education
• Educational expenditure
• The concept of costs in education
• Financial planning and control in education
• Management of educational resources
• Nigeria's economy in the 21st century and educational development.

• Political leadership to better align education and economic development
• Mutual accountability of ministers of finance and of education
• Education priorities in a challenging environment
• Skills development for economic growth in Africa
• Scope and barriers to pan-African cooperation in education and training
• Priorities for education financing and external aid
• Pressing on amidst the global crisis : next steps.

Most African countries can take pride in the unmistakable progress towards the Education for All (EFA) goals for 2015 agreed at the Dakar 2000 World Education Forum, thanks to the combined impact of laudable education reforms, substantially increased public financing of education and greater flows of external aid for education. Yet the good news has been dampened by the global financial crisis of 2008, a crisis that could well reverse the hard won educational gains of the last decade. Of particular concern is the potential setback to the nascent efforts in many African countries to align the expansion of secondary and tertiary education more closely with the needs of the economy and to equip the workforce with the skills for economic competitiveness. These concerns attracted 44 African Ministers from 28 countries, among them 16 Ministers of Finance and of Education perhaps the first ever conference convening both groups of ministers to participate in the July 2009 Conference on Sustaining the Education and Economic Momentum in Africa amidst the Current Global Financial Crisis jointly hosted by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa, the African Development Bank and the World Bank. The ministers affirmed that educational reform is an agenda for the whole government, not just for the ministries charged with developing and implementing education and training policies. It therefore requires strong leadership to foster cross-ministry collaboration, coordination and mutual accountability, so that investments in education and training can indeed help to advance national development and economic progress, particularly in today s knowledge-based global economy. These conclusions and their implication received ample discussion at the conference.
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This report reviews research on the role of education and training in economic performance. It focuses on the long-run and international perspective of economic trends and education to counteract the fairly myopic view of economic conditions encountered in many policy debates. In addition to surveying research on the relationships between education and training and the macroeconomic phenomenon of economic growth and individual wages, this review discusses alternative approaches that take a more systems-oriented approach than the standard economic framework.

• List of Tables, Figures, and Examples Preface Acknowledgments to the Second Edition Acknowledgments to the Third Edition About the Authors
• Chapter 1. Introduction to Economic Evaluation 1.1. Purpose and Goals of the Book 1.2. The Importance of Economic Evaluations 1.3. Economic Evaluation for Decisionmaking in Education 1.4. Summary of Approaches to Economic Evaluation 1.5. Economic Evaluations and Policymaking 1.6. Outline of the Book Discussion Questions
• Chapter 2. Establishing an Analytic Framework 2.1. Identifying the Problem 2.2. Taking Account of the Audience and Perspective 2.3. Relating Economic Evaluation to the Theory of Change 2.4. Determining If Economic Evaluation Is Necessary 2.5. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 3. Cost Concepts 3.1. The Concept of Costs 3.2. Cost per Unit 3.3. Costs and the Theory of Change 3.4. Costs Data and Budgetary Information 3.5. Motivation for Cost Analysis 3.6. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 4. The Ingredients Method 4.1. Identifying Ingredients 4.2. Specifying Ingredients 4.3. Sources of Ingredients Information 4.4. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 5. Placing Values on Ingredients 5.1. Methods for Valuing Ingredients 5.2. Placing Dollar Values on Ingredients 5.3. Costs Over Multiple Years 5.4. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 6. Analyzing and Reporting Costs 6.1. Tabulating Total Cost Using a Cost Worksheet 6.2. Reporting Costs 6.3. Allocating Costs Among Constituencies 6.4. Analyzing Cost Determinants and Generalizing Costs 6.5. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 7. Effectiveness 7.1. Specifying Effectiveness 7.2. Methods for Identifying Effectiveness 7.3. Utility Analysis 7.4. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 8. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 8.1. Cost-Effectiveness Ratios 8.2. Alternative Cost-Effectiveness Metrics 8.3. Interpreting Cost-Effectiveness Ratios 8.4. Explaining Cost-Effectiveness Ratios 8.5. Evidence on Cost-Effective Interventions 8.6. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 9. Estimating Benefits 9.1. The Concept of Benefits 9.2. Specifying Benefits 9.3. Valuing Educational Benefits Through Earnings 9.4. Valuing Educational Benefits Through Shadow Pricing 9.5. Applying Benefits in Benefit-Cost Analysis 9.6. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 10. Benefit-Cost Analysis 10.1. Combining Benefits and Costs Into Economic Metrics 10.2. Performing Benefit-Cost Analysis 10.3. Examples of Benefit-Cost Analysis 10.4. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 11. Accounting for Uncertainty 11.1. Type of Uncertainty and Sensitivity 11.2. General Sensitivity Testing 11.3. Sensitivity Testing of Cost Estimates 11.4. Sensitivity Testing of Cost-Effectiveness 11.5. Sensitivity Testing of Benefit-Cost Analysis 11.6. Distributional Issues 11.7. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 12. Checklist for Economic Evaluations 12.1. A Checklist for Appraising Economic Evaluations 12.2. Appraising Economic Evaluations 12.3. Conclusions Discussion Questions Exercises
• Chapter 13. Economic Evaluations for Education Policy 13.1. Applying Economic Analysis 13.2. Expanding the Use of Economic Evaluation 13.3. Decisionmaking and Economic Evaluation 13.4. Prioritizing Educational Investments 13.5. Using Economic Evaluations to Improve Education Research 13.6. The Future of Economic Evaluation of Education 13.7. A Final Word Discussion Questions Appendix A. Answers to Even-Numbered Exercises Appendix B. CostOut Tool References Index.
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The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to provide readers with the step-by-step methods they need to plan and implement a benefit-cost analysis in education. Authors Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive Belfield, Alyshia Brooks Bowden, and Robert Shand examine a range of issues, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to incorporate cost evaluations into the decision-making process. The updates to the Third Edition reflect the considerable methodological development in the evaluation literature, and the greater empiricism practiced by education researchers, to help readers learn to apply more advanced methods to their own analyses.
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This is a collection of short, stand-alone chapters divided into five sections including overview of the field; private and social returns to human capital investments; production, costs and financing of education; teachers and teacher labor markets; and, education markets, choice and incentives. The collection provides international perspectives that describe the origins of these subjects, their major issues and proponents, their landmark studies, and opportunities for future research. 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. The chapters come from the acclaimed "International Encyclopedia of Education, 3/e" (2010), edited by Eva Baker, Barry McGaw, and Penelope Peterson. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,350 articles in 24 sections that stretch from educational philosophies and technologies to measurement, leadership, and national systems of education. This single volume textbook presents a cohesive view of this increasingly important area of economics. It includes superb contributions from well-regarded economist convey unique and useful perspectives. Chapters contain an extensive bibliography and further readings to enable interested researchers to extend their knowledge into each specific topic.
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• List of figures-- List of tables-- Preface--
• 1. The relevance of education--
• 2. The demand for education--
• 3. Liquidity constraints and access to education--
• 4. The supply of education--
• 5. Education financing--
• 6. The return on education--
• 7. Intergenerational persistence-- References-- Subject index-- Author index.
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In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker, Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on human capital and social capital formation. He draws on individual data on intergenerational transmission of income and education for the USA, Germany and Italy, as well as aggregate data on income and educational inequality for a much wider range of countries. Checchi explores whether resources spent in education are effective in raising students' achievement, as well as analysing alternative ways of financing education. The Economics of Education thus provides the analytical tools necessary to understand the complex relationships between current income inequality, access to education and future inequality.
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• Introduction
• 1. Human Capital and Rates of Return
• 2. Signalling and Screening
• 3. The Economic Assessment of Training Schemes
• 4. Education and Economic Growth
• 5. Skill-Biased Technical Change and Educational Outcomes
• 6. The Social and External Benefits of Education
• 7. School Finance
• 8. Funding Higher Education
• 9. Exploring the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement: What Have We Learned Over the Past Two Decades?
• 10. The Economics of Secondary Schooling
• 11. Determinants of Educational Success in Higher Education
• 12. Standards and Grade Inflation
• 13. The School-to-Work Transition
• 14. The Labour Market for Teachers
• 15. Multiproduct Cost Functions for Universities: Economies of Scale and Scope
• 16. Efficiency Measurement
• 17. Education, Child Labour and Development
• 18. Education and Housing Index.
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• Contents: Introduction
• 1. Human Capital and Rates of Return
• 2. Signalling and Screening
• 3. The Economic Assessment of Training Schemes
• 4. Education and Economic Growth
• 5. Skill-Biased Technical Change and Educational Outcomes
• 6. The Social and External Benefits of Education
• 7. School Finance
• 8. Funding Higher Education
• 9. Exploring the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement: What Have We Learned Over the Past Two Decades?
• 10. The Economics of Secondary Schooling
• 11. Determinants of Educational Success in Higher Education
• 12. Standards and Grade Inflation
• 13. The School-to-Work Transition
• 14. The Labour Market for Teachers
• 15. Multi-product Cost Functions for Universities: Economies of Scale and Scope
• 16. Efficiency Measurement
• 17. Education, Child Labour and Development
• 18. Education and Housing Index Contributors: S.L. Averett, S. Bradley, S. Brown, E. Cohn, S.T. Cooper, P.J. Dolton, D. Greenaway, M. Haynes, W.H. Hoyt, S. Jafarey, G. Johnes, J. Johnes, S. Lahiri, S. Machin, M.C. McLennan, W.W. McMahon, D. Mitch, R.A. Naylor, A.N. Nguyen, H.A. Patrinos, G. Psacharopoulos, P. Santiago, J.G. Sessions, J. Smith, P. Stevens, J. Taylor, M. Weale.
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This major new Handbook comprehensively surveys the rapidly growing field of the economics of education. It is unique in that it comprises original contributions on an exceptional range of topics from a review of human capital, signalling and screening models, to consideration of issues such as educational externalities and economic growth, funding models, determinants of educational success, the educational production function, educational standards and efficiency measurement. Labour market issues such as the market for teachers, and the transition of students from school to work are also explored. The International Handbook on the Economics of Education will be warmly welcomed by academics economists and educational researchers, practitioners in educational management as well as policymakers. Comprising specially commissioned articles, the Handbook will become indispensable reference for this ever topical field of study.
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