Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

By Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann. Journal of economic growth (Boston), 2012

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Human Capital Development (2010, neutral): “In fact, the country-level measures of average cognitive skills in Hanushek and Kimko (2000), and later Hanushek and Woessmann (2009), are not based on a random selection of schools or students, and may therefore not be nationally representative of the skill level of students, much less of the…”
Making Aid Work for Education in Developing Countries: an Analysis of Aid Effectiveness for Primary Education Coverage and Quality (2016, background): “Hanushek and Woessmann (2009) compile the information available from different tests into a large panel database.”
Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment (2011, background): “Offers to everyone, identical to the previous one they received and regardless of their schooling status during the first year of the program in 2008, were renewed between December 2008 and January 2009 for the second and final year of the intervention, which ended at the end of 2009.”
Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment (2015, neutral): “In the contemporaneous context, Hanushek and Woessman (2012) show that the share of cognitively highperforming students is strongly associated with growth, independent of basic literacy.”