School tracking has been introduced as a means to provide skills the labor market demands,
and as such has been in place for several decades in most Organisation for Economic Co …

The emergence of large longitudinal data sets linking students to teachers has led to rapid
growth in the study of teacher effects on student outcomes by economists over the past …

This article studies the impact of changing job skills on career earnings dynamics for college
graduates. We measure changes in the skill content of occupations between 2007 and 2019 …

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 …

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

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 …

When I started writing this book, I knew I'd need to read piles of research but failed to foresee
the enormity of the piles. Education isn't just a major industry; it inspires researchers' …

We collect data on management practices in over 1,800 high schools in eight countries. We
show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in
other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school …

Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been
persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends …