Read Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education

Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education

Walter W. McMahon

4.9/5 (26234 ratings)

Description:A college education has long been acknowledged as essential for both personal success and economic growth. But the measurable value of its nonmonetary benefits has until now been poorly understood. Walter W. McMahon, a leading education economist, carefully describes these benefits and suggests that higher education accrues significant social and private benefits. McMahon's research uncovers a major skill deficit in the United States and other OECD countries owing to technical change and globalization. Yet a college degree brings better job opportunities, higher earnings, and even improved health. Higher education also promotes democracy and sustainable growth and contributes to reduced crime and lower state welfare and prison costs. These social benefits are substantial in relation to the costs of a college education. Offering a human capital perspective on these and other higher education policy issues, McMahon suggests that poor understanding of the value of nonmarket benefits leads to private underinvestment. He offers policy options that can enable state and federal governments to increase investment in higher education.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education. To get started finding Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 432

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0801896789

Description: A college education has long been acknowledged as essential for both personal success and economic growth. But the measurable value of its nonmonetary benefits has until now been poorly understood. Walter W. McMahon, a leading education economist, carefully describes these benefits and suggests that higher education accrues significant social and private benefits. McMahon's research uncovers a major skill deficit in the United States and other OECD countries owing to technical change and globalization. Yet a college degree brings better job opportunities, higher earnings, and even improved health. Higher education also promotes democracy and sustainable growth and contributes to reduced crime and lower state welfare and prison costs. These social benefits are substantial in relation to the costs of a college education. Offering a human capital perspective on these and other higher education policy issues, McMahon suggests that poor understanding of the value of nonmarket benefits leads to private underinvestment. He offers policy options that can enable state and federal governments to increase investment in higher education.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education. To get started finding Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education

Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education

More Books

Education and Development: Measuring the Social Benefits

Education and Development: Measuring the Social Benefits

Financing Education

Financing Education

Investment in higher education

Investment in higher education

The monetary returns to higher education: Are they worth the investment costs? (Faculty working papers / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Commerce and Business Administration)

The monetary returns to higher education: Are they worth the investment costs? (Faculty working papers / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Commerce and Business Administration)

Potential resource recovery in higher education in the developing countries and the parents' expected contribution (BEBR faculty working paper)

Potential resource recovery in higher education in the developing countries and the parents' expected contribution (BEBR faculty working paper)

An Efficiency-Based Management Information System (Fundamentals of Educational Planning)

An Efficiency-Based Management Information System (Fundamentals of Educational Planning)

A study of the college investment decision, project report I: Responses, with comparisons to the characteristics of other recent microeconomic surveys (ACT research report)

A study of the college investment decision, project report I: Responses, with comparisons to the characteristics of other recent microeconomic surveys (ACT research report)

Sources of the slowdown in productivity growth: A structural interpretation (Faculty working paper)

Sources of the slowdown in productivity growth: A structural interpretation (Faculty working paper)

Classics of Organizational Behavior (3rd, 01) by Natemeyer, Walter E - McMahon, J Timothy [Paperback (2001)]

Classics of Organizational Behavior (3rd, 01) by Natemeyer, Walter E - McMahon, J Timothy [Paperback (2001)]