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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2004
achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261798
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob J. M.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2006
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270563
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Teaching practices and social capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011
performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286875
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774497
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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348286
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Specifying Human Capital: A Review, Some Extensions, and Development Effects
Wößmann, Ludger - 2000
, misspecifies the relationship between education and the stock of human capital. Based on human capital theory, the specification of … human capital should be extended to allow for decreasing returns to education and for differences in the quality of a year … of education. Cross-country differences in qualityadjusted human capital can account for about half the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260445
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New Evidence on the Missing Resource-Performance Link in Education
Wößmann, Ludger - 2001
education are decreasing. Resources may render positive effects at very low endowment levels prevailing in many developing … countries, but their effect is weak to non-existent in advanced countries. The missing resource-performance link in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260458
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2002
We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260490
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Schooling Resources, Educational Institutions, and Student Performance: The International Evidence
Wößmann, Ludger - 2000
The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260634