Eric A. Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow
International
General Audience Articles
Is the U.S. catching up? International and state trends in student achievementEducation Next, 12(4), Fall 2012, pp. 24-33.
Achievement growth: International and state trends in student achievementPEPG Report No. 12-03, July 2012.
Globally Challenged: Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?PEPG Report No. 11-03, Cambridge, MA: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, August 2011.
Teaching Math to the Talented: Which Countries - and States - are Producing High-Achieving Students?Education Next, Winter 2011, pp. 10-18.
U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students?PEPG Report No. 10–19, Cambridge, MA: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, November 2010.
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.
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.
Notes/Comments
Allowing local schools to make more decisions may work in developed countries but is questionable in developing countriesVox, January 9, 2012.
Vocational education facilitates entry into the labour market but hurts employment at older agesVox, November 21, 2011.
Working Papers
School resources and educational outcomes in developing countries: A review of the literature from 1990 to 2010NBER Working Paper 17554, October 2011.
General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-CycleNBER Working Paper 17504, October 2011.
Books
Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast BrazilNew York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 362 pages.
Academic Articles
Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISAJournal of Development Economics, Forthcoming.
Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation Journal of Economic Growth, 17(4), December 2012, 267-321.
Schooling, Educational Achievement, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle Journal of Development Economics, 99(2), November 2012, pp. 497-512.
The Role of International Assessments of Cognitive Skills in the Analysis of Growth and Development In Matthias von Davier, Eugenio Gonzalez, Irwin Kirsch, and Kentaro Yamamoto (Ed.), The Role of International Large-Scale Assessments: Perspectives from Technology, Economy, and Educational Research, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2012, 47-65.
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 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.
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.
Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the WorldEconomics of Education Review, 22(5), October 2003, pp. 481-502.
Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and the Growth of NationsAmerican Economic Review, 90(5), December 2000, pp. 1184-1208.
Interpreting Recent Research on Schooling in Developing CountriesWorld Bank Research Observer, 10(2), August 1995, pp. 227-246.
