Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 222
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of development economics 166 (2024), pp. 1-28
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454511
Cover Image
Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
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/10014243090
Cover Image
Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
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/10014243471
Cover Image
Central exams improve educational performance : international evidence
Woessmann, Ludger - 2002
world on how to improve the educational achievement of students. The empirical evidence suggests that central exams help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451763
Cover Image
Central exams improve educational performance : international evidence
Woessmann, Ludger - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001702610
Cover Image
Education policies to make globalization more inclusive
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Making globalization socially sustainable, (pp. 297-316). 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313949
Cover Image
Second thoughts on development accounting
Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Woessmann, Ludger - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000680238
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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