Ludger Woessmann

The Knowledge Capital of Nations

Education and the Economics of Growth

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population. In th...

School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World

Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents new evidence from the Programme...

Endangering Prosperity

A Global View of the American School

"Compares the performance of American schools with that of other countries against the background of an increasingly globalizing world, introducing ne...

Schooling and the Quality of Human Capital

This book presents a thorough economic analysis of both the determinants and the consequences of international differences in schooling quality. It is...

Educational Production in East Asia

The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

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The Ifo Education Survey 2014-2021

A New Dataset on Public Preferences for Education Policy in Germany

The ifo Education Survey is a representative opinion survey of the German voting-age population on education topics that has been conducted annually s...

Public Opinion and the Acceptance and Feasibility of Educational Reforms : EENEE Analytical Report, Prepared for the European Commission

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Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices

A Non-technical Guide

Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidenc...

Central School Exit Exams and Labor-market Outcomes

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Religion and Growth

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology - together with standard growth mo...

The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire!

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Eight Questions about Brain Drain

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Families, Schools, and Primary-School Learning: Evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an International Perspective

Abstract: This paper presents evidence on the associations between family background, school characteristics and student performance in primary school...

Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending

Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Do differences in citizens’ policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferen...

Coping with Change

International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Expanded international data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey of adult skills allow us to analy...

The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: evidence from within-teacher within-student variation

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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs

Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a repres...

School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions: international evidence using historical catholic roots of private schooling

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves

Language Proficiency and Educational Attainmentof Immigrant Children

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Skills, Signals, and Employability

An Experimental Investigation

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