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Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …

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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 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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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …

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Was Weber wrong?: a human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

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The role of school improvement in economic development

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 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...

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269435

Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...

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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020

Patience and risk-taking – two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making – are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We...

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The cult of statistical significance

Krämer, Walter - 2010

This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in many fields and should therefore be abandoned altogether. The present...

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iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

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