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Growth/Economic Impact

Format: 2023

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The real costs of closing schools and what can be done to address them. (with Ludger Woessmann). Teresa and Alexandre Soares dos Santos - Education Initiative, September 29, 2020.
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Patience, risk-taking, and international differences in student achievement. (with Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann). VoxEU, August 2, 2020.
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Too much self-interested choice?. Phi Delta Kappan, October 26, 2018.
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Testing with accountability improves student achievement. (with Annika B. Bergbauer and Ludger Woessmann). VoxEU, September 18, 2018.
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Testing with accountability improves student achievement. (with Annika B. Bergbauer and Ludger Woessmann). VoxEU, September 18, 2018.
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Every State’s Economic Future Lies with School Reform. AEI Report, American Enterprise Institute, May 2018.
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Student Achievement and Every State's Economic Future. Real Clear Education, April 29, 2016.
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Teach the World: Why the UN Sustainable Development Goals Should Focus on Education. (With Ludger Woessmann). Foreign Affairs, August 20, 2015.
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Universal basic skills should become the primary development goal. (with Ludger Woessmann). VoxEU, May 24, 2015.
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The Economic Relevance of Early Childhood Development. In Jörg F. Maas, Simone C. Ehmig, Carolin Seelmann (Ed.), Prepare for Life! Raising Awareness for Early Literacy Education, Stiftung Lesen, Mainz, DE, 2014, pp. 249-253.
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Poor student learning explains the Latin American growth puzzle. (with Ludger Woessmann). VoxEU, August 14, 2009.
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Education Quality for Economic Development. Conferencia Internatcional Educação e Desenvolvimento Escola e Sociede, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, September 2016, pp. 23-32.
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Working Papers

Contexts of Convenience: Generalizing from Published Evaluations of School Finance Policies. (with Danielle V. Handel). NBER Working Paper No. 31653, National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2023.
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Understanding Trends in Chinese Skill Premiums, 2007-2018. (with Yuan Wang and Lei Zhang). NBER Working Paper No. 31367, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2023.
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U.S. School Finance: Resources and Outcomes. (with Danielle V. Handel). NBER Working Paper No. 30769, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2022.
U.S. School Finance: Resources and Outcomes. (with Danielle V. Handel). NBER Working Paper No. 30769, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2022.
Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development. (with Sarah Gust and Ludger Woessmann). NBER Working Paper No. 30566, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2022.
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The Economic Impacts of Learning Losses. (with Ludger Woessmann). OECD Education Working Paper No. 225, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, September 2020.
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Books

The Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth. (with Ludger Woessmann). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015, 262 pages.
Universal Basic Skills: What countries stand to gain. (with Ludger Woessmann). Paris: OECD Publishing, 2015, 110 pages.
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