Volume 34, No. 4
Spring 2009
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Class, Ability, Mobility: Economic and Academic
Paths from Middle School to Early Adulthood
JOE G. BAKER, Professor of Economics, Department of
Economics & Finance, Southern Utah University 355
"Privileging" Public Research Universities: An Empirical Analysis
of the Distribution of State Appropriations Across
Research and
Non-Research Universities
MICHAEL K. McLENDON, Associate Professor of Public Policy
and Higher Education and Associate Dean, Peabody College of
Vanderbilt University, CHRISTINE G. MOKHER, Research
Analyst for CNA Education, and WILLIAM DOYLE, Assistant Professor
of Public Policy and Higher Education in the Department of Leadership,
Policy & Organizations at Vanderbilt University 372
Government as Anti-Poverty Facilitator in the USA:
Static Inequality Gap
FRANK W. MUSGRAVE, Professor of Economics at Ithaca College 402
The Cost-Effectiveness of Replacing the Bottom Quartile of Novice
Teachers Through Value-Added Teacher Assessment
STUART S. YEH, Professor in the College of Education and Human
Development, University of Minnesota and JOSEPH RITTER, Professor
in the Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota 426
Index to Volume 33 452
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