Includes bibliographical references and index.

v.1. Post schooling wage growth : investment, search and learning / Yona Rubinstein and Yoram Weiss -- Long-term trends in schooling : the rise and decline (?) of public education in the United States / Sandra E. Black and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Historical perspectives on racial differences in schooling in the United States / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Immigrants and their schooling / James P. Smith -- Education wage premia and the distribution of earnings : an international perspective / Franco Peracchi -- Educational wage premiums and the U.S. income distribution : a survey / Donald R. Deere and Jelena Vesovic -- Earnings functions, rates of return and treatment effects : the Mincer equation and beyond / James J. Heckman, Lance J. Lochner and Petra E. Todd -- The social value of education and human capital / Fabian Lange and Robert Topel -- Why has black-white skill convergence stopped? / Derek Neal -- Education and nonmarket outcomes / Michael Grossman -- Does learning to add up add up? : the returns to schooling in aggregate data / Lant Pritchett -- Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation / Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy V. Masterov -- V.2. Using wages to infer school quality / Robert Speakman and Finis Welch -- School Resources / Eric A. Hanushek -- Drinking from the fountain of knowledge : student incentive to study and learn : externalities, information problems and peer pressure / John Bishop -- Schools, teachers, and education outcomes in developing countries / Paul Glewwe and Michael Kremer -- Has school desegregation improved academic and economic outcomes for blacks? / Steven Rivkin and Finis Welch -- Teacher quality / Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin -- Teacher supply / Peter J. Dolton -- Pre-school, day care, and after school care : who's minding the kids? / David Blau -- The courts and public school finance : judge-made centralization and economic research / William A. Fischel -- Income and peer quality sorting in public and private schools / Thomas J. Nechyba -- Public intervention in post-secondary education / Thomas J. Kane -- US higher education finance / Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro -- Income contingent loans for higher education : international reforms / Bruce Chapman.