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International evidence on school tracking : a review

Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 7 (2009) 1, pp. 26-34

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Central exams as the "Currency" of school systems : international evidence on the complementarity of school autonomy and central exams

Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 1 (2003) 4, pp. 46-56

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Culture and student achievement : the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 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 find...

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

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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