This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics
research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising …

Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, shaping outcomes
like work and pay, health, and wealth. Explaining inequalities in educational outcomes, as …

We argue that identification problems bedevil applied spatial economic research. Spatial
econometrics usually solves these problems by deriving estimators assuming that functional …

Education funding in the United States relies primarily on state and local resources, with just
a tiny share of total revenues allotted by the federal government. Most analyses of the …

This paper measures the effect of increased primary school spending on students' college
enrollment and completion. Using student-level panel administrative data, I exploit variation …

In our annual series of reports on education spending, funded by the Nuffield Foundation,
we bring together data on education spending per student across the life cycle and provide …

This research seeks to investigate the claim that London schools have improved
dramatically since 2000. The authors have reviewed the evidence of transformational …

This chapter is concerned with methods for analyzing spatial data. After initial discussion of
the nature of spatial data, including the concept of randomness, we focus most of our …

Skillnader i resultat mellan elever och skolor, och förändringar över tid, kan bero dels på
elevernas egenskaper som t. ex. föräldrars utbildningsnivå, födelseland och …

The UK change of government in 2010 provoked a large structural change in the English
education landscape. Unexpectedly, the new government offered primary schools the …