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Can Higher-Achieving Peers Explain the Benefits to Attending Selective Schools? : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …
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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372447
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456023
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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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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481339
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Who Benefits From Attending Effective Schools? Examining Heterogeneity in High School Impacts
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2020
scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th-grade) for students who are more versus less … educationally advantaged (i.e., likely to attain more years of education based on 8th-grade characteristics). All students benefit … from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482413
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462702
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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467561