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03731aam a2200433 i 4500 001 FF9FE6960C2C11EAA2E5F95597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191121010049 008 171108t20182018mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017049345 020 $a 0674050908 020 $a 9780674050907 035 $a (OCoLC)1002830540 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d HLS $d YDX $d OCLCO $d PAU $d RIU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a LC71 $b .N43 2018 082 00 $a 379 $2 23 100 1 $a Neal, Derek A., $e author. 245 10 $a Information, incentives, and education policy / $c Derek A. Neal. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xiii, 224 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Sanford J. Grossman lectures in economics series 520 $a Derek Neal writes that economists must analyze public education policy in the same way they analyze other procurement problems. He shows how standard tools from economics research speak directly to issues in education. For mastering the models and tools that economists of education should use in their work, there is no better resource available.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Humans as machines -- Learning and producing -- Earnings inequality -- A role for government -- Appendix: Learn to learn. Learn to earn. Then earn -- Exercises -- Resources and outcomes -- Waste and calls for reform -- Time series evidence -- More court orders -- Cost-benefit analyses are not our focus -- The education production function -- Salary schedules -- Class size -- Evidence from developing countries -- Approaches to education reform -- Exercises -- Assessment-based incentives -- Defining terms -- An empirical regularity -- Economic theory and Campbell's Law -- Parallels to education -- Optimal incentive design -- Alignment problems -- Solutions to alignment problems -- Pay for percentile -- Two tasks require two measurement systems -- Who teaches -- The limits of ABI systems -- Appendix: Empirical work on educator quality -- Appendix: Multi-tasking for beginners -- Exercises -- Letting parents choose -- Attendance zones -- Deferred acceptance -- Top trading cycles -- DA vs TTC -- The importance of being earnest -- Recent empirical work -- Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic -- Exercises -- Charter schools -- Lottery results -- Studies without lotteries -- Competitive pressures on public schools -- Competition is not a magic bullet -- Appendix: Experimental data and late for beginners -- Vouchers -- Baseline model -- Public versus private school comparisons -- Public school responses -- Too focused on saving money -- Vouchers systems need accountability systems -- International evidence -- Political barriers -- Design details, segregation, and inequality -- Peer effects and complications -- Exercises -- Putting the pieces together -- Work to be done -- Moving forward. 650 0 $a Education and state. 650 0 $a Education $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Educational planning. 650 0 $a Educational indicators. 650 0 $a Education $x Aims and objectives. 650 7 $a Education $x Aims and objectives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902507 650 7 $a Education and state. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902835 650 7 $a Education $x Economic aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902610 650 7 $a Educational indicators. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903479 650 7 $a Educational planning. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903540 830 0 $a Sanford J. Grossman lectures in economics series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022621.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF9FE6960C2C11EAA2E5F95597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search