Human Capital Book

Prologue Joop Hartog and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink;

Part I. Measuring the Benefits from Human Capital:

1. What should you know about the private returns to education? Joop Hartog and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink;
2. The social returns to education Mikael Lindahl and Erik Canton;
3. Returns to training Edwin Leuven;
4. Human capital and entrepreneurs Justin van der Sluis and Mirjam van Praag;
5. The effects of education on health Wim Groot and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink;
6. Are successful parents the secret to success? Erik Plug;

Part II. Applying and Extending the Human Capital Model:
7. Overeducation in the labour market Wim Groot and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink;
8. Underinvestment in training Randolph Sloof, Joep Sonnemans and Hessel Oosterbeek;
9. Human capital and risk Joop Hartog and Simona Maria Bajdechi;

Part III. Policy Interventions:
10. Using (quasi-) experiments to evaluate education interventions Hessel Oosterbeek;
11. Unemployment duration: policies to prevent human capital depreciation Bas van der Klaauw;
12. Can we stimulate teachers to enhance quality? Ib Waterreus;
13. Optimal tax and education policies and investments in human capital Bas Jacobs; Epilogue: some reflections on educational policies; A note on econometrics; Index.