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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 …
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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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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...
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Specifying human capital
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of economic surveys 17 (2003) 3, pp. 239-270
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Specifying human capital
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Surveys in economic growth : theory and empirics, (pp. 13-44). 2004
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Specifying human capital : a review, some extensions, and development effects
Woessmann, Ludger - 2000
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …
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For long-term economic development, only skills matter : Economic growth determines a nation’s long-term economic well-being and crucially depends on skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2017
Politicians typically focus on short-term economic issues; but, a nation’s long-term economic well-being is directly linked to its rate of economic growth. In turn, its growth rate is directly linked to the economically relevant skills of its population. Until recently, however, economists...
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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/10014144127