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We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236426
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025660
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961664
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966504
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316213
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143681
Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International … ability based on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science …
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-level regressions with PISA data exploit between-subject variation to overcome bias from unobserved country heterogeneity and control …
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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 …
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This paper hypothesizes and empirically establishes the educational burden of the ADHD-related behavioral symptoms inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity on aggregate cognitive achievement outcomes. We use a novel compilation of the 2- and 7-repeat allele variants of the human DRD4 exon...
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