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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices: a non-technical guide
Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269613
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The effect of protestantism on education before the industrialization: evidence from 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271781
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2013
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329001
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333387
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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274864
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The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274940
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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices: a non-technical guide
Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276626
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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278605
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves: Language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962194
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves: Language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012042384