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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
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The economic case for education
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Education economics 24 (2016) 1/2, pp. 3-32
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of public economics 188 (2020), pp. 1-27
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Education and religious participation : city-level evidence from Germany's secularization period 1890-1930
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of economic growth 22 (2017) 3, pp. 273-311
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Vocational education, manufacturing, and income distribution : international evidence and case studies
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Ngo, Nam; Noy, Ilan - In: Open economies review 29 (2018) 3, pp. 641-664
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Returns to Skills Around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276778
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School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World
Woessmann, Ludger; Luedemann, Elke; Schuetz, Gabriela; … - Edward Elgar
Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253446
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The effect of investment in children’s education on fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 6 (2012) 1, pp. 29-44
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 … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices: a non-technical guide
Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Education Economics 19 (2011) 2, pp. 109-137
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …
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School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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