Handbook of the Economics of Education

Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is also chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences and of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence (California).

• 1. Post Schooling Wage Growth: Investment, Search and Learning 2. Long Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the United States 3. Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States 4. Immigrants and Their Schooling 5. Educational Wage Premia and the Distribution o f Earnings: An International Perspective 6. Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey 7. Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond 8. The Social Value of Education and Human Capital 9. Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped? 10. Education and Nonmarket Outcomes 11. Does Learning to Add Up Add Up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data 12. Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation