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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings : Evidence from the German Short School Year

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years … led indeed to shorter schooling for affected students. Using comparisons across cohorts, states, and secondary school … number of students attending the highest secondary school track or earnings later in life …

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 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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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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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

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