Schools and the equal opportunity problem / edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : schools and the equal opportunity problem / Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann -- Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britain / Stephen Machin -- Education and earnings over the life cycle : longitudinal age-earnings profiles from Sweden / Sofia Sandgren -- Peer effects in North Carolina public schools / Jacob Vigdor and Thomas Nechyba -- The heterogeneous effect of selection in UK secondary schools / Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles -- The optimal timing of school tracking : a general model with calibration for Germany / Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini, and Kenn Ariga -- Some U.S. evidence on how the distribution of educational outcomes can be changed / Eric A. Hanushek -- The effectiveness of human-capital policies for disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands / Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek -- Equalizing opportunity for racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States through educational-finance reform / Julian R. Betts and John E. Roemer -- Educational reform and disadvantaged students in the United States / John H. Bishop and Ferran Mane -- The impact of school choice on sorting by ability and socioeconomic factors in English secondary education / Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson -- The impact of perceived public-school quality on private-school choice in Italy / Daniele Checchi and Tullio Jappelli.