using two data series from Australia, where comparable tests are available back to the 1960s. For young teenagers (aged 13 … productivity, we identify a number of plausible explanations. © 2011 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

evidence using two data series from Australia, where comparable tests are available back to the 1960s. For young teenagers …

education. For example, more generous student income support should increase educational participation rates, while more … subsidies may be more salient than the degree of progressivity in the taxation system. In trying to set optimal education taxes … developed nations, to see whether those with higher public subsidies to education, or less progressive taxes, have higher rates …

Western Australia. Combining test results with data on schools’ socioeconomic characteristics, this study estimates the degree …

higher return to education than previous studies, we believe that this is primarily due to the better measurement of income …We compare three quasi-experimental approaches to estimating the returns to schooling in Australia: instrumenting … twins. With annual pre-tax income as our measure of income, we find that the naïve (OLS) returns to an additional year of …

consistent data on the academic aptitude of new teachers, we compare those who have entered the teaching profession in Australia … average percentile rank of those entering teacher education fell from 74 to 61, while the average rank of new teachers fell …

In Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia, Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …