Education Matters is a collection of essays on the economics of education by Alan Krueger, the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. The introduction provides an overview of the 15 previously published papers contained in the book, and discusses how these papers evolved in the context of the literature. My comments focus almost exclusively on the six papers...

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-The paper presents a systematic taxonomy of research areas in the economics of education and gives a number of key topics that deserve more research attention in the future. Emphasis is put on documenting the unit cost of education at different schooling levels and curriculum types, along with the learning and earning outcomes of education. Evidence on the costs and benefits, from both the pri...

The importance of economic education goes far beyond the goal of improving an understanding of the basic principles of supply and demand and the workings of our economy. Economic attitudes and opinions should be a topic of interest to teachers of economics, whether they teach it as a separate course or integrate it into the existing curriculum. This study explores students’ perceptions of econo...

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Some economist educators are lecturing less, and making use of teaching techniques that engage students more actively. Here we discuss a number of pedagogical strategies that do just that, with the aim of encouraging critical thinking on controversial economic issues. The three specific examples discussed in the paper are 1) a simulation to model the different social locations of various econom...