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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Sebastian; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
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/10013315949
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant - 2013
Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089159
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences : Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015
develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019852
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Global Trends in Numeracy 1820-1949 and its Implications for Long-Run Growth
Crayen, Dorothee; Baten, Jörg - 2021
This study is the first to explore long-run trends of numeracy for the 1820-1949 period in 165 countries, and its contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316581
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The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2007
evidence that the cognitive skills of the population - rather than mere school attainment - are powerfully related to … minimal and high level skills, the complementarity of skills and the quality of economic institutions, and the robustness of … the relationship between skills and growth. International comparisons incorporating expanded data on cognitive skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777643
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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido - 2008
immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source countries, we illustrate the important role of distance, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769704
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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement : Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316193
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap : Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2021
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315695
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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla - 2014
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054321
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 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/10009371359