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Scores in standardized international student achievement tests and some recent adult literacy studies provide interesting data on the quality of educational outputs and on the skill level of the population that can be a useful complement to the data on the quantity of schooling which have been...
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of education. Cross-country differences in qualityadjusted human capital can account for about half the world …
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This paper calculates new measures of human capital. Contrary to the existing literature, they are based on realistic rates of return to education, which are allowed to vary substantially across countries and to some extent over time. The new measures perform well in regression analysis...
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of education. Cross-country differences in quality-adjusted human capital can account for about half the world …
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of education. Cross-country differences in qualityadjusted human capital can account for about half the world …
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to pay to reside in a community with superior schools. Controlling for neighborhood characteristics and school financial … inputs, she finds that a 5 percent increase in the average test scores of an elementary school leads to a 2.1 percent … increase in the price of houses in that school's attendance district …
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This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
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