The Contributions of Economics to the Study of College Access and Success http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=12582 Economics: The primary framework in economics of education is the human capital model developed by Gary Becker in his seminal 1964 work.2 Education is thought to increase human capital, a set of skills that can be “rented out” to employers for income. …
Category: access
May 12
why should we care about college access
College access is fundamentally a question of social opportunity – a question of democracy: who gets to participate, how, when, where and under what conditions…. College access == macro college choice == micro higher education opportunity educational opportunity == operationalized in a lot of different ways — K-12 framework without an end game — to …