education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policy challenges of taxation in developing countries are issues …

Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary …, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality schooling face … of Arts and Sciences), leading experts consider the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education …

tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …

in computing to diverge from boys'; the second section, on higher education, includes a nationwide study of computing … programs and a cross-national comparison of computing education; the final section, on pathways into the IT workforce …

Public-private partnerships in education exist in various forms around the world, in both developed and developing … relative efficacy of these two sectors in providing education. Other chapters examine the use of publicly funded vouchers in …

The dominant role played by the state in the financing, regulation, and provision of primary and secondary education … reflects the widely-held belief that education is necessary for personal and societal well-being. The economic organization of … education depends on political as well as market mechanisms to resolve issues that arise because of contrasting views on such …

, transition, labor markets, and education. A theme common to all the essays is the importance of education in reducing inequality …

education practices and the institutions and markets in which education takes place. The ten chapters, all commissioned for this … other subjects of current debate in education. Each author demonstrates how methods used in economics can be applied to … measure the success and failures of educational practices. All the contributions focus on precollege education and the …