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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from Piaac

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014

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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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981519

Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low-education individuals are most likely to profit … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …

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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131931

Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc - 2012

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Covid-19 and Educational Inequality : How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...

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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 relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...

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The Information Value of Central School Exams

Schwerdt, Guido - 2015

. Choices of higher-education programs and of occupations do not appear major channels of this result …

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Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

Schuetz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education …. Using cross-country variations in education policies and their interaction with family background at the student level, we …

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