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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?

Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014

socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on … children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their …

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Diverging destinies in international perspective : education, single motherhood, and child poverty

Härkönen, Juho - 2017

Educational differences in family demography have gained wide attention, not least due to arguments that they amplify existing inequalities in child well-being and life chances. Despite the interest, there has been a lack of comprehensive cross-national descriptions of trends in educational...

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor); … - 2009

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 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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L' inégalité mondiale de l'éducation et des revenus (1870 - 2000)

Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - In: Economie & prévision : EP 186 (2008) 5, pp. 39-46

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Die Relevanz von Bildung für Beschäftigung und Wachstum

Woessmann, Ludger - In: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 54 (2007) 1, pp. 9-26

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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Does the quality of pre-primary education pay off in secondary school? : an international comparison using PISA 2003

Schütz, Gabriela - 2009

-primary education, larger shares of children attending privately managed pre-primary institutions, and higher relative pay and higher …

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Essays in macroeconomics

Van Rens, Jan Mathijs - 2005

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