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Number 1 Contents Shawna Grosskopf and Evaluating performance in Chicago public high schools in the wake of Chad Moutray decentralization Denis Rochat and Jean- 15 Rational choice under unequal constraints: the example of Belgian Luc Demeulemeester higher education Alec Ian Gershberg and 27 ‘The efficiency—equity trade-off of schooling outcomes: public Til Schuermann education expenditures and welfare in Mexico H. Roland Weistroffer, 41 A merit pay allocation model for college faculty based on performance Michael A. Spinelli, quality and quantity George C. Canavos and F. Paul Fuhs Dale Ballou 51 Pay for performance in public and private schools Michael L. Walden and 63 Determinants of intrastate variation in teacher salaries Zulal Sogutlu Hong-Kyun Kim 71 Is there a crowding-out effect between school expenditure and mother’s child care time? Bruce D. Baker 81 Can flexible non-linear modeling tell us anything new about educational productivity? 93 Book reviews 103 ~—L ist of Referees Number 2 Contents Robert C. Lowry 105 The effects of state political interests and campus outputs on public university revenues Omar Arias and 121 Dynamic rates of return to education in the USS. Walter W. McMahon Gérard Lassibille, 139 Youth transition from school to work in Spain Lucia Navarro Gémez, Isabel Aguilar Ramos, and Carolina de la O Sanchez Brian J. Surette 151 Transfer from two-year to four-year college: an analysis of gender differences Pamela Christie and 165 Educational attainment and the gender wage gap: evidence from the Michael Shannon 1986 and 1991 Canadian censuses Elizabeth T. Hill 181 Post-school-age training among women: training methods and labor market outcomes at older ages Book reviews List of books received Number 3 Contents Steven G. Rivkin 201 ‘Tiebout sorting, aggregation and the estimation of peer group effects Paul Miller, Charles 211 Genetic and environmental contributions to educational attainment in Mulvey and Nick Martin Australia John Gibson Unobservable family effects and the apparent external benefits of education Thomas J. Webster A principal component analysis of the U.S. News & World Report tier rankings of colleges and universities Robert K. Toutkoushian Do parental income and educational attainment affect the initial choices of New Hampshire’s college-bound students? Michael J. Hilmer 263 A comparison of alternative specifications of the college attendance equation with an extension to two-stage selectivity-correction models Nasser Daneshvary and ae? Efficiency and costs in education: year-round versus traditional Terrence M. Clauretie schedules William O. Brown 289 Sources of funds and quality effects in higher education Rajindar K. Koshal, 297 Multi-product total cost function for higher education: a case of bible Manjulika Koshal and colleges Ashok Gupta Geoffrey Coyne 305 The Private Costs of Public Schooling: Household and Community Financing of Primary Education in Cambodia Number 4 Contents Special Issue: in Honor of John Riew Elchanan Cohn 307 Preface to special issue: in honor of John Riew David C. Ribar 309 Introduction to the special issue in honor of Professor John H. Riew Richard J. Murnane, John 311 Do different dimensions of male high school students’ skills predict B. Willett, M. Jay Braatz labor market success a decade later? Evidence from the NLSY and Yves Duhaldeborde Jere R. Behrman and 321 Household schooling behaviors and decentralization Elizabeth M. King Helen F. Ladd and Sheila 343 Intergenerational conflict reconsidered: county demographic structure E. Murray and the demand for public education David Shapiro and 359 Gender, poverty, family structure, and investments in children’s B. Oleko Tambashe education in Kinshasa, Congo William E. Becker and 377 Student performance, attrition, and class size given missing student data John R. Powers Emmanuel Jimenez and 389 Public for private: the relationship between public and private school Yasuyuki Sawada enrollment in the Philippines David C. Ribar 401 The effects of local employment opportunities on youths’ work and schooling 415 Publications - John Riew Number 5 Contents Robert Bifulco and Stuart 417 Estimating school efficiency: A comparison of methods using simulated Bretschneider data Eric R. Eide and 431 Is participation in high school athletics an investment or a Nick Ronan consumption good? Evidence from high school and beyond 443 Mike Smet Determining the optimal size of study fields in Flemish secondary education Dean R. Lillard and 459 Higher standards, more dropouts? Evidence within and across time Philip P. DeCicca Claude Montmarquette, The determinants of university dropouts: a bivariate probability model Sophie Mahseredjian and with sample selection Rachel Houle Sam Allgood 485 Grade targets and teaching innovations Li-Hsuan Huang 495 Was higher education a quasi-fixed factor for firms in the 1980s? Jan P. Voon 503 Measuring social returns to higher education investments in Hong Kong: production function approach 511 Book reviews Number 6 Contents Fred Thompson and 517 Effects of key state policies on private colleges and universities: William Zumeta sustaining private-sector capacity in the face of the higher education access challenge Phanindra V. Wunnava 533 Alumni giving at a small liberal arts college: evidence from consistent and Michael A. Lauze and occasional donors James Monks 545 Loan burdens and educational outcomes Michael J. Hilmer 551 Redistributive fee increases, net attendance costs, and the distribution of students at the public university Eric R. Eide and 563 The effect of grade retention on educational and labor market Mark H. Showalter outcomes John T. Jones and 577 Examining the impact of capital on academic achievement Ron W. Zimmer C.R. Belfield and 589 Measuring the relationship between resources and outcomes in higher A. Fielding education in the UK Book reviews Volume Contents/Author Index e e