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Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2006

Returns to education are traditionally estimated in a Mincer wage equation from the variation in schooling for a cross-section of individuals of different ages. Because individuals receive education at different time periods, when the quality of their education may not be identical, this method...

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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468102

The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...

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

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...

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Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1999

Analyses of income inequality have identified the importance of increased demand for worker skills, but … characterizations of worker skills by the amount of schooling attained do not capture important aspects of the widening income … quality is an important component of the changing income distribution. The central analysis focuses on how governmental …

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995

Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...

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Employer Learning and the Dynamics of Returns to Universities : Evidence from Chinese Elite Education during University Expansion

Démurger, Sylvie - 2019

This paper estimates the return to an elite university education over a college graduate's career using the CHIP 2013 data. We find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at job entry, but it declines quickly with labor market experience. This pattern is entirely...

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