Sowohl in der Politik als auch in der bisherigen Forschung wird betont, dass berufsspezifische Ausbildungen einen Vorteil gegenüber allgemeinen Bildungsgängen haben, indem sie jungen Leuten den Übergang vom Bildungs- ins Berufssystem erleichtern. Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University, Ludger...

Sowohl in der Politik als auch in der bisherigen Forschung wird betont, dass berufsspezifische Ausbildungen einen Vorteil gegenüber allgemeinen Bildungsgängen haben, indem sie jungen Leuten den Übergang vom Bildungs- ins Berufssystem erleichtern. Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University, Ludger...

Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because direct measures of outcomes are available, making it is...

Much of education policy focuses on improving teacher quality, but most policies lack strong research support. We use student achievement gains to estimate teacher value-added, our measure of teacher quality. The analysis reveals substantial variation in the quality of instruction, most of which...

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...

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 adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because direct measures of outcomes are available, making it is...

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools is not an accident but instead represents a complex mixture of government and family choices. While the goals of the integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of...

Empirical analysis of peer effects on student achievement has been open to question because of the difficulties of separating peer effects from other confounding influences. While most econometric attention has been directed at issues of simultaneous determination of peer interactions, we argue...