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dc.contributor.authorHanushek, Eric Alanen
dc.contributor.authorWoessmann, Ludgeren
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-19-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T12:06:37Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T12:06:37Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/36178-
dc.description.abstractWe 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 student achievement across countries, over time, and along the within-country distribution. Extensive sensitivity analyses of cross-country growth regressions generate remarkably stable results across specifications, time periods, and country samples. In addressing causality, we find, first, significant growth effects of cognitive skills when instrumented by institutional features of school systems. Second, home-country cognitive-skill levels strongly affect the earnings of immigrants on the U.S. labor market in a difference-in-differences model that compares home-educated to U.S.-educated immigrants from the same country of origin. Third, countries that improved their cognitive skills over time experienced relative increases in their growth paths. From a policy perspective, the shares of basic literates and high performers have independent significant effects on growth, and the estimates suggest that the high-performer effect is larger in poorer countries.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4575en
dc.subject.jelH4en
dc.subject.jelI2en
dc.subject.jelJ3en
dc.subject.jelJ61en
dc.subject.jelO1en
dc.subject.jelO4en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordHuman capitalen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic growthen
dc.subject.keywordcognitive skillsen
dc.subject.stwBildungsniveauen
dc.subject.stwKognitionen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftswachstumen
dc.subject.stwBildungsökonomiken
dc.subject.stwKausalanalyseen
dc.subject.stwWelten
dc.subject.stwMigrantenen
dc.subject.stwBildungsertragen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleDo better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn616712561en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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