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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235845
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257347
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256208
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307
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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : international evidence
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003
decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509528
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Education promoted secularization : conference paper
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491163
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The economic case for education
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Education economics 24 (2016) 1/2, pp. 3-32
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451748
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943
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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402504
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Competition, decentralization, and accountability : lessons for education policies in developing countries from international achievement tests
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Nord-Süd aktuell : Vierteljahreszeitschrift für … 19 (2005) 2, pp. 142-153
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003107595