Eric A. Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow
Growth/Economic Impact
General Audience Articles
Education and Economic Growth in Dominic J. Brewer and Patrick J. McEwan, Economics of Education (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010), 2010, pp. 60-67.
The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long-Run Impact of Improving PISA OutcomesParis: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2010, pp. 1-55.
Teacher Deselection In Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway (Eds.), Creating a New Teaching Profession (Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2009), 2009, pp. 165-180.
Education and Economic Growth: It's not Just Going to School but Learning That MattersEducation Next, 8(2), Spring 2008, pp. 62-70.
Economic Outcomes and School QualityEducation Policy Series, Volume 4. Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning and International Academy of Education}, 2005.
The Importance of School Quality In Paul E. Peterson (ed.), Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk?, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press), 2002, pp. 141-173.
Notes/Comments
Working Papers
General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-CycleNBER Working Paper 17504, October 2011.
Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth PuzzleNBER Working Paper 15066, June 2009.
Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and CausationNBER Working Paper 14633, January 2009.
Academic Articles
The Economic Benefit of Educational Reform in the European UnionCESifo Economic Studies, 58(1), March 2012, pp. 73–109.
How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?Economic Policy, 26(67), July 2011, pp. 427-491.
Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic ResearchEconomics Letters, 110(2), February 2011, pp. 79-82.
The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement In Eric A. Hanushek, Stephen Machin and Ludger Woessmann (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011, pp. 89-200.
School Policy: Implications of Recent Research for Human Capital Investments in South Asia and Other Developing CountriesEducation Economics, 17(3), September 2009, pp. 291-313.
Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Schooling and Skill GradientsJournal of Human Capital, 3(2), Summer 2009, pp. 107-143.
The Economic Value of Education and Cognitive Skills In Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider and David N. Plank (eds.), Handbook of Education Policy Research, New York: Routledge, 2009, pp. 39-56.
The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic DevelopmentJournal of Economic Literature 2008, 46(3), 2008, pp. 607-668.
Incentives for Efficiency and Equity in the School SystemPerspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 9 (Special Issue), 2008, pp. 5-27.
The Effects of Education Quality on Mortality Decline and Income Growth Economics of Education Review, 26(2), December 2007, pp. 772-789.
Alternative School Policies and the Benefits of General Cognitive SkillsEconomics of Education Review, 25(4), August 2006, pp. 447-462.
The Economic Value of Improving Public SchoolsProceedings of Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Research Conference, November 18-19, 2004, Cleveland: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2005, pp. 59-72.
Education and Training In Nicholas Barr (ed.), Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Accession and Beyond, Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2005, pp. 207-251.
Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and the Growth of NationsAmerican Economic Review, 90(5), December 2000, pp. 1184-1208.
Alternative Assessments of the Performance of Schools: Measurement of State Variations in AchievementThe Journal of Human Resources, 25(2), Spring 1990, pp. 179-201.
Non-Labor-Supply Responses to the Income Maintenance Experiments In Alicia H. Munnell(ed.), Lessons from the Income Maintenance Experiments, Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Brookings Institution, 1987, pp. 106-121.
Life-Cycle Earning Capacity and the OJT Investment ModelInternational Economic Review, 26(2), June 1985, pp. 365-385.
Alternative Models of Earnings Determination and Labor Market StructureJournal of Human Resources, 16(2), Spring 1981, pp. 238-259.
Implicit Investment Profiles and Intertemporal Adjustments of Relative WagesAmerican Economic Review, 68(1), March 1978, pp. 67-79.
Regional Differences in the Structure of EarningsReview of Economics and Statistics, 55(2), May 1973, pp. 204-213.
