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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills : what is being measured and why it matters
Humphries, John Eric; Kosse, Fabian - 2016
Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of non-cognitive skills varies widely. As a result, it is difficult to compare results on the importance of non-cognitive skills across literatures. Drawing from these literatures,...
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Literacy and information
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric Alan; 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...
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Beneficial brain drain and non-migrants' welfare
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018
Though a net brain gain has tended to be seen as a benefit and referred to as a 'beneficial brain drain' in the literature, its welfare impact for source country residents - or non-migrants - is at best ambiguous. Increased educational investment in response to a brain drain is equivalent to a...
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Birth order effects on education : insights from low- and middle-income countries
Mendolia, Silvia; Stavrunova, Olena; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024
Birth order effects in developed countries are consistently negative. That is, the later a child is born within a family, the worse their adult economic outcomes relative to their earlier-born siblings are. However, studies of birth order effects in emerging countries are scarcer and yield...
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014
In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive...
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Education, intelligence and diseases in old age
Niccodemi, Gianmaria; Bijwaard, Govert - 2018
education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role … measurement system using IQ tests to identify latent intelligence. Educational choices, surviving up to old age and medication use … all depend on observed individual factors and on latent intelligence. Based on the estimation results, we derive the …
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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
. The literature finds that the GED testing program distorts social statistics on high school completion rates, minority …
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