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The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2007
The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions. This paper reviews the role of education in promoting economic well-being, with a particular focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465824
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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … growth models estimated across world regions, these low levels of cognitive skills can account for the poor growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463583
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464016
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Returns to Skills around the World : Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A. - 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/10012458901
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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …
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