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Hanushek, Eric; Rivkin, Steven G.; Baude, Patrick L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of...

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Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap

Hanushek, Eric; Rivkin, Steven G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Sizeable achievement differences by race appear in early grades, but substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap and particularly about its evolution across different parts of the achievement distribution. Texas administrative data show...

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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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 … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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