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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008532123
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The Determinants of High School Closures: Lessons from Longitudinal Data throughout Illinois
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Beck, Frank D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois schools, we examine the determinants of high school … the most important determinants of school closures. Neither math and reading test scores nor the sociodemographics of the … students have a significant impact on high school closure decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550002
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Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
percentile rankings on these tests and cumulative grade point average (GPA) in both middle and high school. Our findings provide … outcomes. We also examine a novel hypothesis that relative academic performance of immigrant children in high school compared … to middle school, which could be an indicator of change in adolescent aspirations and motivation as well as the degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105059
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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884095
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Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
Green, David A.; Riddell, W. Craig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
they leave school at a rate greater than indicated by cross-sectional estimates. At the same time, more recent birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279317
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371896
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010697238
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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning … growth models estimated across world regions, these low levels of cognitive skills can account for the poor growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469714
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy … skills when instrumented by institutional features of school systems. Second, home-country cognitive-skill levels strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469720
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The Duration of Paid Parental Leave and Children's Scholastic Performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
education and school outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030888