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Families, schools, and primary-school learning : evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective
Woffmann, Ludger - 2005
primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database …,300 students in Argentina and 5,131 students in Colombia. The emerging general pattern of results is that educational performance …' resource endowments. In an international perspective, estimated family background effects are relatively large in Argentina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522662
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Families, schools, and primary-school learning : evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective
Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002716075
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Families, schools and primary-school learning : evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 19/21, pp. 2645-2665
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747753
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Families, Schools, and Primary-School Learning : Evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an International Perspective
Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database …,300 students in Argentina and 5,131 students in Colombia. The emerging general pattern of results is that educational performance …' resource endowments. In an international perspective, estimated family background effects are relatively large in Argentina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065973
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Families, Schools, and Primary-School Learning : Evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an International Perspective
W????mann, Ludger; Fuchs, Thomas - 2012
primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database …,300 students in Argentina and 5,131 students in Colombia. The emerging general pattern of results is that educational performance …' resource endowments. In an international perspective, estimated family background effects are relatively large in Argentina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554037
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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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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543634
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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Class-size effects in school systems around the world : evidence from between-grade variation in TIMSS
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2002
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411229
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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