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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283829
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Why standard measures of human capital are misleading
Hanushek, Eric Alan - In: Han gug gae bal yeon gu 37 (2015) 2, pp. 23-40
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297472
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Economic gains for US states from educational reform
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405723
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Economic gains for US states from educational reform
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407760
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288586
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014
different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235845
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2013
different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229525
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: European economic review : EER 73 (2014), pp. 103-130
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343004
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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274178
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Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
affect the earnings of immigrants on the U.S. labor market in a difference-in-differences model that compares home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274179