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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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Public-Private Partnership and Schooling Outcomes Across Countries

Woessmann, Ludger - 2006

The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...

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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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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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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Sebastian; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

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

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