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Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2022

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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Wößmann, Ludger; Hanushek, Eric A.; Zhang, Lei - 2012

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...

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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Hanushek, Eric A.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2005

performance. Therefore, there does not appear to be any equity-efficiency trade-off. …

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Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School

Fuchs, Thomas; Wößmann, Ludger - 2005

We estimate the relationship between computers and students' educational achievement in the international student-level PISA database. Bivariate analyses show a positive correlation between achievement and computer availability both at home and at school. However, once we control extensively for...

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Frühkindliche Bildung und spätere kognitive und nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten: Deutsche und internationale Evidenz

Schlotter, Martin; Wößmann, Ludger - 2010

Dieser Artikel präsentiert Ergebnisse mehrerer international vergleichender und deutschermikroökonometrischer Untersuchungen zum Zusammenhang zwischen frühkindlicher Bildungund späteren kognitiven und nicht-kognitiven Fähigkeiten anhand der TIMSS-, PISA-,IGLU- und...

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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Wößmann, Ludger - 2003

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using … internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in … five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South Korea …

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Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production

Wößmann, Ludger; Bishop, John H. - 2001

institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to … student performance of institutions such as central examinations, centralization versus school autonomy, teachers' influence …

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Every catholic child in a catholic school: historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries

West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2008

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...

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Frühkindliche Bildung und spätere kognitive und nichtkognitive Fähigkeiten: deutsche und internationale Evidenz

Schlotter, Martin; Wößmann, Ludger - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 3, pp. 99-120

Dieser Artikel präsentiert Ergebnisse mehrerer international vergleichender und deutscher mikroökonometrischer Untersuchungen zum Zusammenhang zwischen frühkindlicher Bildung und späteren kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten anhand der TIMSS-, PISA-, IGLU- und DJI-Kinderpanel-...

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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Wößmann, Ludger; Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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