Education has long been viewed as an important determinant of economic well-being. The
theoretical growth literature emphasizes at least three mechanisms through which education …

This paper disentangles the impact of schools and teachers in influencing achievement with
special attention given to the potential problems of omitted or mismeasured variables and of …

The focus on human capital as a driver of economic growth for developing countries has led
to undue attention on school attainment. Developing countries have made considerable …

… variables in the model; see Hanushek and John Jackson 1977. … This is an expanded version
of tabulations in Hanushek 1981… the universe of studies can be found in Hanushek 1981. …

We develop a new metric for the distribution of educational achievement across countries
that can further track the cognitive skill distribution within countries and over time. Cross-…

The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become
controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved …

Policy proposals promoting vocational education focus on the school-to-work transition. But
with technological change, gains in youth employment may be offset by less adaptability and …

Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise
school quality. Unfortunately, policy recommendations often ignore existing evidence about …

The estimation of education production functions has provided direct evidence about the
effectiveness of various educational policies. Most specifically, the existing analyses that …

Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of
altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the …