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Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2006

Returns to education are traditionally estimated in a Mincer wage equation from the variation in schooling for a cross-section of individuals of different ages. Because individuals receive education at different time periods, when the quality of their education may not be identical, this method...

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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...

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The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 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...

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How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions : The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes

Papay, John P. - 2011

Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future …-mandated standardized tests. On these tests, students receive a score and a label that summarizes their performance. Using a regression …-discontinuity design, we find persistent effects of earning a more positive label on the college-going decisions of urban, low-income …

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Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1999

Analyses of income inequality have identified the importance of increased demand for worker skills, but … characterizations of worker skills by the amount of schooling attained do not capture important aspects of the widening income … quality is an important component of the changing income distribution. The central analysis focuses on how governmental …

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Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond

Murnane, Richard J. - 1999

This paper examines the value of the GED credential and the conventional high school diploma in explaining the earnings of 27-year-old males in the early 1990s. The data base is the High School & Beyond sophomore cohort. We replicate the basic findings of prior studies that implicitly assume the...

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Estimating the Impact of the GED on the Earnings of Young Dropouts Using a Series of Natural Experiments

Tyler, John H. - 1998

The General Educational Development (GED) credential has become the primary 'second chance' route to high school certification for school dropouts in the United States. Despite the widespread use of the GED, however, bias due to self-selection has limited our knowledge about the effects of the...

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995

Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...

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The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination

Murnane, Richard J. - 1995

Using data from two longitudinal surveys of American high school seniors, we show that basic cognitive skills had a larger impact on wages for 24-year-old men and women in 1986 than in 1978. For women, the increase in the return to cognitive skills between 1978 and 1986 accounts for all of the...

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