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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477384
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Second thoughts on development accounting
Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Woessmann, Ludger - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000680238
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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? : Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755669
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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330119
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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor);  … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003797144
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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806721
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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920009
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663562
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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2006
This paper develops empirical growth models suitable for dual economies, and studies the relationship between structural change and economic growth. Changes in the structure of employment will raise aggregate productivity when the marginal product of labour varies across sectors. The models in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859503
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Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003998048