“Économie de l’éducation” | Luc Behaghel, Julien Grenet and Marc Gurgand
In their latest book, Luc Behaghel, Julien Grenet and Marc Gurgand take a look at the economics of education.
Économie de l’éducation
Go to the page dedicated to the book on the website of Éditions La Découverte (Repères collection).
Extract from the 4th cover
Summary
How can we reduce social inequalities at school? How can we encourage the spread of the best teaching approaches? Is everything really decided before the age of 3? Does class size influence student success? Is there a “teacher effect”? Are we reduced to choosing between being good parents and good citizens? These questions are at the heart of public debate.
For the past three decades, the answers provided by the economics of education to these questions have been based on a profound renewal of applied economics, aimed at making credible - and often creative - use of increasingly rich data. The aim of this book, based on a course taught at the Paris School of Economics, is to provide an up-to-date summary that will inspire further personal reflection
The authors
Luc Behaghel is Professor at the Paris School of Economics and director of research at INRAE. He is also affiliated with J-PAL Europe, the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and CEPREMAP. His research focuses on the evaluation of public policies, economic development and labour. A qualified social scientist, he teaches economics of education, labour and development, and econometrics.
Julien Grenet is a professor at the Paris School of Economics and director of research at the CNRS. He is also affiliated to the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and, with Antoine Bozio, heads the Institute for Public Policy (IPP), which is dedicated to the analysis and evaluation of public policy. His research focuses on the economics of education and public policy.
Marc Gurgand is a professor at the Paris School of Economics and director of research at the CNRS. He is also Director of the Economics Department at the École normale supérieure - PSL. His research areas are econometrics, the economics of public policy and the economics of education.