- Introduction
- I. Economic Growth and Distribution
- 1. The Human Capital Century
- 2. Inequality across the Twentieth Century
- 3. Skill-Biased Technological Change
- II. Education for the Masses in Three Transformations
- 4. Origins of the Virtues
- 5. Economic Foundations of the High School Movement
- 6. America’s Graduation from High School
- 7. Mass Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
- III. The Race
- 8. The Race between Education and Technology
- 9. How America Once Led and Can Win the Race for Tomorrow
- Appendix A. The 1915 Iowa State Census Sample
- Appendix B. Construction of State-Level Secondary School Data
- Appendix C. Construction of City-Level Secondary School Data Set
- Appendix D. Construction of Wage Bill Shares and Educational Wage Differentials, 1915 to 2005
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
The Race between Education and Technology
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ISBN 9780674035300
Publication Date: 03/30/2010
Awards & Accolades
- 2009 Richard A. Lester Award, Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University
- 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award, Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
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