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Bergbauer, Annika B. - 2018

School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...

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The euro’s trade effect under cross-sectional heterogeneity and stochastic resistance

Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - 2010

This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs …, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which …, aggregate exports within the euro area increase between 2000 and 2002 by 15 to 25 percent compared with aggregate exports …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976871

Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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Second thoughts on development accounting

Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Woessmann, Ludger - 1998

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472182

Specifying human capital : a review, some extensions, and development effects

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473489

Class-size effects in school systems around the world : evidence from between-grade variation in TIMSS

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002

We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student …

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Schooling resources, educational institutions, and student performance : the international evidence

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000 - Revised version

differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for …

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The decline of schooling productivity in OECD countries

Gundlach, Erich; Woessmann, Ludger; Gmelin, Jens - 2000 - Revised version

Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD countries the price of schooling has increased faster in...

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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : International evidence

West, Martin R. (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Educational production in East Asia : the impact of family background and schooling policies on student performance

Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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