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Public opinion and the acceptance and feasibility of educational reforms : EENEE analytical report, prepared for the European Commission
Busemeyer, Marius R.; Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, … - 2017
In education policy, as in many other policy fields, well-designed policy reforms may fail to get enacted because policymakers may suddenly become confronted with a public backlash against their reform agenda. Thus, understanding the dynamics of public opinion is important in order to be able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070354
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The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. -- schooling ; fertility transition ; unified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883851
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The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. -- Schooling ; fertility transition ; unified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916571
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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2010
The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135779
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The Trade-Off between Fertility and Education : Evidence from Before the Demographic Transition
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154486
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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education : Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316317
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283829
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288586
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Is seeing believing? : how Americans and Germans think about their schools
Henderson, Michael B.; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peterson, … - 2015
What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and school policies? This paper offers the first broad comparison of public thinking on education in the two countries. We carried out opinion surveys of representative samples of the German and American adult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011306290
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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565610