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Specifying Human Capital: A Review, Some Extensions, and Development Effects

Wößmann, Ludger - 2000

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …

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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018

university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …

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Central Exams Improve Educational Performance: International Evidence

Wößmann, Ludger - 2002

, schools, administrators, and parents. Using an international micro database of nearly half a million students, this paper … world on how to improve the educational achievement of students. The empirical evidence suggests that central exams help to … achieve higher student performance. Central exams direct the incentives of all educational actors towards furthering students …

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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - 1999

We compare changes in schooling output and in schooling input of six East Asian countries to derive a measure of productivity change. Our results question the impression that all is well with education in East Asia. First, we find that the cognitive achievement of pupils did not change...

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The decline of schooling productivity in OECD countries

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger; Gmelin, Jens - 2000

Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD countries the price of schooling has increased faster in...

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Fundamental determinants of school efficiency and equity: German states as a microcosm for OECD countries

Wößmann, Ludger - 2007

Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The...

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Every catholic child in a catholic school: historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries

West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2008

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...

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Better schools for Europe

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - In: EIB Papers 6 (2001) 2, pp. 8-22

We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....

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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Asian economics 12 (2001) 3, pp. 401-417

We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...

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