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The Legacy of Covid-19 in Education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799658
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Great expectations and hard times: The (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281923
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Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness
Nagler, Markus; Piopiunik, Marc; West, Martin R. - 2015
How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by exploiting business cycle conditions at career start as a source of exogenous variation in the outside options of potential teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307116
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278869
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Parental Well-Being in Times of Covid-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spiess, C. Katharina; … - 2020
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269557
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State Investment in Higher Education: Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-Term Financial Outcomes of Students
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2020
recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers … and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314879
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Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2020
We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825395
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State Investment in Higher Education : Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-Term Financial Outcomes of Students
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael - 2021
recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers … and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315212
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Public-private partnership and schooling outcomes across countries
Woessmann, Ludger - 2006
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261413
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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production
Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008
This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264348