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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 - 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
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
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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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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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007 - This version: January 22, 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470491
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229328
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229697
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229974