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School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far?
Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
This chapter summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Linear-in-means models find modest sized and statistically significant peer effects in test scores. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable...
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …
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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278605
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Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem
Woessmann, Ludger (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …
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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
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Schooling, educational achievement, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 497-512
Latin American economic development has been perceived as a puzzle. The region has trailed most other world regions over the past half century despite relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle, however, can be resolved by considering educational achievement, a...
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Handbook of the Economics of Education
Hanushek, Erik (contributor); Machin, Stephen (contributor);  … - Elsevier
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. With contributions from leading...
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