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- Becker, Ludger Woessmann
- 2007
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative… (More)
Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and… (More)
The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved economic conditions. This… (More)
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth… (More)
- Ludger Woessmann
- 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country… (More)
- Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann, Lei Zhang
- 2011
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 diminished… (More)
- Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann, U Stirling
- 2007
Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls’ school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls’ schools in Protestant areas. Using countyand town-level data… (More)
- West, Ludger Woessmann
- 2008
Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger… (More)
- Ludger Woessmann
- 2002
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent… (More)
- Erich Gundlach, Ludger Woessmann
- 2006
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling… (More)