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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2012
subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691259
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - CESifo - 2014
different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … in the United States. Analysis of the new PIAAC survey of adult skills over the full lifecycle in 22 countries shows that … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736745
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - CESifo - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351470
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583660
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The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A.; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - CESifo - 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099051
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Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom?
Chingos, Matthew M.; West, Martin R. - CESifo - 2010
We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001–02 and … earnings outside of teaching. The relationship between effectiveness and earnings is stronger in other industries than it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583642
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Stay in School or Start Working? - The Human Capital Investment Decision under Uncertainty and Irreversibility
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Pilichowski, Margarethe - CESifo - 2009
As the time of leaving school determines the level of academic achievement this timing decision is central for the human capital investment decision. Real option theory offers a new perspective of the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596569
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Student Abilities During the Expansion of US Education
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - CESifo - 2013
The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large expansion of educational attainment; the second, an increase in test score gaps between college bound and non-college bound students. We study the impact of these two trends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723538
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094337
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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2007
The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406242