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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 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 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

The role of education quality in economic growth

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007

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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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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …

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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

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Culture and student achievement: the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241063

Culture and student achievement : the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255834

Culture and student achievement: the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248854

Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 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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