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Broadband infrastructure and economic growth

Czernich, Nina; Falck, Oliver; Kretschmer, Tobias; … - 2009

We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel … telephony and computers. -- broadband ; high-speed internet ; technology diffusion ; economic growth …

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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...

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Economic gains for US states from educational reform

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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Can online surveys represent the entire population?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018

not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in web mode, (2) offliners in face …

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Surfing alone? : the Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions

Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...

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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...

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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...

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