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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

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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 …

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Aufstieg durch Bildung : Bildungspolitik für den Zugang zur gesellschaftlichen Mitte

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Second thoughts on development accounting

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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? : Differences-in-differences evidence across countries

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

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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...

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Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

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Education policy and equality of opportunity

Schütz, Gabriela (contributor); … - 2005

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...

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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? : Differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor); … - 2005

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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