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Do better schools lead to more growth?: cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 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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Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274179

International Evidence on School Tracking: A Review

Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE Report 07 (2009) 1, pp. 26-34

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

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 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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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

rate versus just the steady-state income level - matters less than academic discussions suggest. We close by discussing …

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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011

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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012

positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012

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Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

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

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