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

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000

, misspecifies the relationship between education and the stock of human capital. Based on human capital theory, the specification of … of education. Cross-country differences in qualityadjusted human capital can account for about half the world …

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The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

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

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions

Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...

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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...

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New evidence on the missing resource-performance link in education

Woessmann, Ludger - 2001

New evidence confirms the conclusion of former surveys that the link between school resources and student performance is generally missing in educational production. While the conventional within-country cross-section evidence remains controversial, recent contributions which control for...

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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 performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects....

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

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000 - Revised version

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...

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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement

Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...

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