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Hanushek, Eric; Rivkin, Steven G.; Kain, John F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

Many school districts experience difficulties attracting and retaining teachers, and the impending retirement of a substantial fraction of public school teachers raises the specter of severe shortages in some public schools. Schools in urban areas serving economically disadvantaged and minority...

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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger; Link, Susanne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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