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 …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics
research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising …

We study the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program in
middle-school grades in urban India using a lottery that provided winners with free access to …

Improvements in empirical research standards for credible identification of the causal impact
of education policies on education outcomes have led to a significant increase in the body of …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

This meta-analysis examines the effects of sorting secondary students into different tracks
(“between-school” tracking) or classrooms (“within-school” tracking) on the efficiency and …

Women are less likely than men to graduate with a degree in science, technology,
engineering, or math (STEM). We use detailed administrative data for a recent cohort of …

In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively
correlated with their parents' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio …

We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational
attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within …

We investigate the effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long‐term
education and labour market outcomes for Germany, a country with a rigorous early‐age …