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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from Piaac

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061447

General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Falck, Oliver - 2010

shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation … effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial …

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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

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The Importance of School Systems : Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …

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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and Their Effect on Student Achievement

Falck, Oliver - 2015

overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries …

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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …

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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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