Table of contents for Schools and the equal opportunity problem / edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson.


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I he Problem     I
1 Introduction: Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem
Pau i E PIterso n and udger v Woesmann
2  Education Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility in
Britain  29
Steph en Machin
3  Education and Earnings over the Life Cycle: Longitudinal Age-
Earnings Profiles from Sweden  51
Sofia Sandgren
I Solutions iA Change the Peer Group?  71
4 Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools  73
acohb Vgdor and Thomas Nechlba
5 The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in UK Secondary
Schools  103
Fernando Gabndo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles
6  The Optimal Timing of School Tracking: A General Model with
Calibration for Germany  129
Giorgio Brunello. Massimo Giannnin and Kenn Ariga
III Solutions B: Refocus Resources?  157
7  Some U.S. Evidence on How the Distribution of Educational
Outcomes Can Be Changed   159
Eric A. Hanushek
8  The Effectiveness of Human-Capital Policies for Disadvantaged
Groups in the Netherlands  191
Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek
9  Equalizing Opportunity for Racial and Socioeconomic Groups i
the United States through Educational-Finance Reorm  209
Julian R. Betts and John E. Roemer
IV Solutions or Aggravations? Standards and Choice  239
10 Educational Reform and Disadvantaged Students in the Unite
States  241
John oH Bishop and Ferran Mane
11 The Impact of School Choice on Sorting by Ability and
Socioeconomic Factors in English Secondary Education  273
Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnellt Carol Propper, and Deborah
Wilson
12 The Impact of Perceived Public-School Quality on Private-
School Choice in Italy  293
Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappeuli



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Educational equalization Europe Congresses, Educational equalization United States Congresses, Educational change Europe Congresses, Educational change United States Congresses, Equality Europe Congresses, Equality United States Congresses