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Format: 2023

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The Basic Skills Gap. (with Ludger Woessmann). Finance & Development, 59(2), 2022, pp. 50-53.
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The Economic Impacts of Learning Losses. (with Ludger Woessmann). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2020.
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Do Smarter Teachers Make Smarter Students? International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance. (with Marc Piopiunik and Simon Wiederhold). Education Next, 19(2) , Spring 2019, pp. 57-64.
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U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests. (with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). Education Next, 14(4), Fall 2014, pp. 8-18.
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Is the U.S. catching up? International and state trends in student achievement. (with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). Education Next, 12(4), Fall 2012, pp. 24-33.
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Achievement growth: International and state trends in student achievement. (with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). PEPG Report No. 12-03, July 2012.
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Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?. (with Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmann, and Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón) . Education Next, 11(4), Fall 2011, pp. 51-59.
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Globally Challenged: Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?. (with Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmann, and Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón) . PEPG Report No. 11-03, Cambridge, MA: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, August 2011.
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Teaching Math to the Talented: Which Countries - and States - are Producing High-Achieving Students?. (with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann) . Education Next, Winter 2011, pp. 10-18.
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U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students?. (with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). PEPG Report No. 10–19, Cambridge, MA: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, November 2010.
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Education and Economic Growth. (with Ludger Woessmann) in Dominic J. Brewer and Patrick J. McEwan (ed.) . Economics of Education (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010), 2010, pp. 60-67.
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The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long-Run Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes. (with Ludger Woessmann) . Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2010, pp. 1-55.
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Education and Economic Growth: It's not Just Going to School but Learning That Matters. (with Dean T. Jamison, Eliot A. Jamison and Ludger Woessmann) . Education Next, 8(2), Spring 2008, pp. 62-70.
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Education Quality and Economic Growth. (with Ludger Woessmann) . Washington, DC: World Bank, July 2007, 27 pages.
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Economic Outcomes and School Quality. Education Policy Series, Volume 4. Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning and International Academy of Education}, 2005.
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Why Quality Matters in Education. Finance and Development, 42(2), June 2005, pp.15-19.
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The Seeds of Growth. Education Next, 2(3), Fall 2002, pp. 10-17.
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Where STEM graduates stem from: The intergenerational transmission of comparative skill advantages. (with Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, and Simon Wiederhold). VoxEU, June 3, 2023.
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A world unprepared: Missing skills for development. VoxEU, (With Ludger Woessmann and Sarah Gust), December 2022.
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills. (with Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, and Simon Wiederhold). VoxEU, February 22, 2022.
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