Similar Search Results

Central exams improve educational performance : international evidence

Woessmann, Ludger - 2002

world on how to improve the educational achievement of students. The empirical evidence suggests that central exams help to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451763

Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : international evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509528

Long-run links among money, prices, and output : world-wide evidence

Herwartz, Helmut; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2001

analyse this topic by means of a P-star model. Based on the quantity theory of money, this approach explains inflation via a …. Moreover, parameter restrictions for the long-run relationships implied by the monetary theory are tested. Country specific P … Preisniveau und dem realen Output testet. Weiterhin werden die Parameterrestriktionen, die sich durch die monet¨are Theorie …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419407

Electoral rules and corruption

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido Enrico; Trebbi, Francesco - 2001

Is corruption systematically related to electoral rules? A number of studies have tried to uncover economic and social determinants of corruption but, as far as we know, nobody has yet empirically investigated how electoral systems influence corruption. We try to address this lacuna in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397938

Political institutions and policy outcomes : what are the stylized facts?

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2001

We investigate the effect of electoral rules and political regimes on fiscal policy outcomes in a panel of 61 democracies from 1960 and onwards. In presidential regimes, the size of government is smaller and less responsive to income shocks, compared to parliamentary regimes. Under majoritarian...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398379

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

Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: Economics letters 153 (2017), pp. 15-19

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810521

Second thoughts on development accounting

Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Woessmann, Ludger - 1998

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472182

School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students’...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975560

Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development

Persson, Torsten - 2005

The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467514