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Does peer ability affect student achievement?
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kain, John F.; Markman, Jacob M.; … - In: Journal of applied econometrics 18 (2003) 5, pp. 527-544
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How equal are educational opportunities? : Family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most equitable performance for students from different family backgrounds, and Britain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002345126
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How equal are educational opportunities? : Family background and student achievement in Europe and the US
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002047388
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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 122 (2012) 561, pp. 727-753
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009669615
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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013
first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students ́computer skills and may increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223045
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2021
first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315659
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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor);  … - 2009
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806721
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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/10003920009
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Specifying human capital : a review, some extensions, and development effects
Woessmann, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473489