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Deposit insurance around the globe : where does it work?

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Kane, Edward J. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 16 (2002) 2, pp. 175-195

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001704811

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139418

Microfinance meets the market

Cull, Robert J.; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Morduch, Jonathan - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 23 (2009) 1, pp. 167-192

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861021

Law, endowments and property rights

Levine, Ross - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 19 (2005) 3, pp. 61-88

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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 30 (2016) 3, pp. 3-32

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

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828793

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

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; 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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Computers and student learning : bivariate and multivariate evidence on the availability and use of computers at home and at school

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We estimate the relationship between students? educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at home and at school in the international student-level PISA database. Bivariate analyses show a positive correlation between student achievement and the availability of computers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261073

The effect heterogeneity of central exams : evidence from TIMSS, TIMSS-Repeat and PISA

Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper uses extensive student-level micro databases of three international student achievement tests to estimate heterogeneity in the effect of external exit exams on student performance along three dimensions. First, quantile regressions show that the effect tends to increase with student...

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What accounts for international differences in student performance?

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261226