-level international education production functions. The use of teacher salary adjustments for outstanding performance is significantly …

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …

tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …

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. …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …

Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …

consequences for human capital, secularization, political change, technology diffusion, and social outcomes. Works on missionaries …