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Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470216
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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth
Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995
Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473468
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Harming the Best : How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Sizeable achievement differences by race appear in early grades, but substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap and particularly about its evolution across different parts of the achievement distribution. Texas administrative data show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758513
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School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
, based on both Texas Schools Project (TSP) administrative data and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey (ECLS), differ … noticeably from other recent analyses of the black-white achievement gap by providing strong evidence that schools have a … within schools, and specific school and peer factors exert a significant effect on the growth in the achievement gap. Unequal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760578
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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals
Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016
accountability systems provide considerable information about student outcomes and rate schools on that basis. However, the No Child … incentives and principal productivity and adversely affect the quality of education in Texas public schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978098
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015
development through improving the quality of schools. While we consider the impact for each state of a range of educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009508
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015
development through improving the quality of schools. While we consider the impact for each state of a range of educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010721
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
development through improving the quality of schools. While we consider the impact for each state of a range of educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000838
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Household Location and Schools in Metropolitan Areas with Heterogeneous Suburbs; Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
has heterogeneous communities in terms of income and tastes for schools. This basic model is used to analyze a series of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462737
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Harming the Best : How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2008
Sizeable achievement differences by race appear in early grades, but substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap and particularly about its evolution across different parts of the achievement distribution. Texas administrative data show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464436