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The Changing Economics of Education

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Abstract

We are currently at the end of a long historical boom in education as a high-growth and a high-payoff industry. We are also at a point at which the views of economists about education may be changing and are subject to significant intellectual attacks. It may be worthwhile therefore to review briefly from whence we have come and where we might be going.

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Michael Allingham (Teaches at the London School of Economics)M. L. Burstein

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Griliches, Z. (1976). The Changing Economics of Education. In: Allingham, M., Burstein, M.L. (eds) Resource Allocation and Economic Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02673-9_4

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