Schooling and the Quality of Human Capital
本书用计量方法研究各国学校教育质量差异的原因，分析教育对经济增长的作用、学校生产率及学生表现，帮助理解各国教育系统的效率差异。
This book is concerned with an extremely important area of research, namely the economics of education. The book is a curious mix of topics. It addresses several distinct but related questions namely: what role does education play in economic growth, what explains school productivity across countries and what determines student performance across countries? Sandwiched in the middle of these empirical chapters is a theoretical model of the production of schooling quality. In essence the book's contribution is as an applied econometric study of the international country differences in schooling and human capital. Such studies are important since we know relatively little about why countries differ in the relative efficiency of their educational systems and why they produce young people of markedly different educational quality. Each country would like to know how well its educational system is doing and how it could learn from other countries. Unfortunately the author does not expand on this rationale or motivation for his book.