Ludger Wößmann
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ludger Wößmann is a German economist and professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . Moreover, being one of the world's foremost education economists, he is the director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. Beyond the economics of education, his research interests also include economic growth and economic history. In 2014, Wößmann's empirical research on the effects of education and his corresponding contribution to public debate were awarded the Gossen Prize , followed by the Gustav Stolper Prize in 2017.
Ludger Wößmann's Published Works
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Published Works
- The role of cognitive skills in economic development (2008) (2031)
- Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation (2009) (1315)
- Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History (2007) (1218)
- Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth (2009) (935)
- The Role of Education Quality for Economic Growth (2007) (857)
- The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement (2010) (756)
- Returns to Skills Around the World: Evidence from PIAAC (2013) (635)
- Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity (2005) (628)
- General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Lifecycle* (2011) (502)
- Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School (2004) (491)
- The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long�?Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy (2011) (463)
- Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA (2011) (427)
- Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles Using German Micro Data (2004) (383)
- Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in Timss (2002) (357)
- The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development (2007) (340)
- The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation (2010) (339)
- The Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth (2015) (318)
- The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long-Run Economic Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes. (2010) (313)
- How Equal are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States (2004) (301)
- The trade-off between fertility and education: evidence from before the demographic transition (2009) (298)
- How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries? (2010) (250)
- *‘Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School’: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition and Student Achievement Across Countries (2008) (214)
- ABOUT SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY (2004) (194)
- The effect heterogeneity of central examinations: evidence from TIMSS, TIMSS‐Repeat and PISA (2005) (189)
- The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement (2016) (186)
- Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay (2010) (178)
- School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World (2009) (178)
- Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries (2007) (161)
- Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake (2011) (159)
- The Effect of Protestantism on Education Before the Industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia (2010) (158)
- The economic impacts of learning losses (2020) (151)
- Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution (2009) (146)
- Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in Nineteenth-Century Prussia (2008) (146)
- The high cost of low educational performance (2010) (138)
- Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle (2009) (138)
- Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition (2003) (138)
- Educational Production in Europe (2005) (135)
- Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem (2007) (129)
- COVID-19 and educational inequality: How school closures affect low- and high-achieving students (2020) (126)
- Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence (2003) (125)
- Why Students in Some Countries Do Better: International Evidence on the Importance of Education Policy. (2001) (124)
- Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices: a non‐technical guide (2009) (118)
- The economic case for education† (2016) (105)
- The Effect Heterogeneity of Central Exams: Evidence from Timss, Timss-Repeat and PISA (2004) (101)
- Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and Their Effect on Student Achievement (2015) (98)
- Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills (2016) (88)
- School competition and students’ entrepreneurial intentions: international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling (2010) (88)
- Knowledge capital, growth, and the East Asian miracle (2016) (85)
- iPEHD—The ifo Prussian Economic History Database (2012) (80)
- The impact of an adult education voucher program: Evidence from a randomized field experiment (2012) (80)
- Public-Private Partnership and Schooling Outcomes Across Countries (2006) (77)
- Vocational vs. General Education and Employment Over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC (2016) (77)
- Knowledge Capital and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States (2015) (73)
- The effect of investment in children’s education on fertility in 1816 Prussia (2010) (72)
- Handbook of the Economics of Education. Volume 3. (2006) (68)
- Globally Challenged: Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete? The Latest on Each State's International Standing in Math and Reading. PEPG 11-03. (2011) (63)
- Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation (2018) (61)
- Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School (2013) (61)
- 'Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School': Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement Across Countries (2008) (60)
- Achievement Growth: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Performance. PEPG Report No.: 12-03. (2012) (60)
- Specifying Human Capital: A Review, Some Extensions, and Development Effects (2000) (59)
- Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia (2011) (59)
- The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism (2020) (59)
- Institutional Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries (2010) (58)
- Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research (2010) (57)
- School Resources and Student Achievement: A Review of Cross-Country Economic Research (2017) (56)
- Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia (2008) (54)
- Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties (2013) (51)
- Education, knowledge capital, and economic growth (2020) (51)
- The Unwavering Ses Achievement Gap: Trends in U.S. Student Performance (2019) (48)
- How Equal are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the Us (2004) (48)
- The Economic Benefit of Educational Reform in the European Union (2012) (46)
- Education and religious participation: city-level evidence from Germany’s secularization period 1890–1930 (2017) (45)
- How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States (2016) (43)
- International Evidence on Expenditure and Class Size: A Review (2007) (41)
- U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students? PEPG Report No.: 10-19. (2010) (38)
- Religion in Economic History: A Survey (2020) (35)
- Skills, earnings, and employment: exploring causality in the estimation of returns to skills (2017) (34)
- Universal Basic Skills (2015) (31)
- The Legacy of COVID-19 in Education (2021) (30)
- Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population? (2018) (29)
- Returns to Skills Around the World (2013) (29)
- New Evidence on the Missing Resource-Performance Link in Education (2001) (28)
- The Information Value of Central School Exams (2015) (27)
- The Economic Impacts of Learning Losses. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 225. (2020) (25)
- Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide (2015) (25)
- Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide (2011) (24)
- Long-run Trends in the U.S. SES—Achievement Gap (2020) (23)
- How Central Exams Affect Educational Achievement: International Evidence from Timss and Timss-Repeat (2002) (22)
- Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments (2018) (22)
- U. S. Math Performance in Global Perspective (2010) (21)
- Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (2011) (20)
- Public opinion and the political economy of educational reforms: A survey (2017) (20)
- Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States (2015) (19)
- It Pays to Improve School Quality: States That Boost Student Achievement Could Reap Large Economic Gains (2016) (18)
- The economic impact of educational quality (2015) (18)
- Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments (2016) (17)
- The Achievement Gap Fails to Close: Half Century of Testing Shows Persistent Divide between Haves and Have-Nots. (2019) (17)
- Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes (2012) (16)
- The Future of European Education and Training Systems : Key Challenges and their Implications (2008) (16)
- An International Look at the Single-Parent: Family Structure Matters More for U.S. Students. (2015) (16)
- Merit Pay International. (2011) (15)
- A quantitative look at the economic impact of the European Union’s educational goals (2020) (14)
- It Pays to Improve School Quality. (2016) (14)
- Is the U.S. Catching Up (2012) (14)
- Education Promoted Secularization (2014) (14)
- Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining (2010) (14)
- The Role of International Assessments of Cognitive Skills in the Analysis of Growth and Development (2013) (13)
- Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform (2015) (11)
- U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests. (2014) (11)
- Testing (2018) (10)
- Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking (2020) (10)
- Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Representative Evidence from Adults and Adolescents (2021) (10)
- Empirical methods in the economics of education (2020) (10)
- The effects of the Protestant reformation on human capital (2011) (10)
- EVIDENCE FROM PIAAC (2013) (9)
- Education policies to make globalization more inclusive (2011) (9)
- Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries (2021) (8)
- Central exit exams improve student outcomes (2018) (8)
- Industrial Policy for National Champions (2011) (8)
- Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany (2017) (8)
- Is Seeing Believing? How Americans and Germans Think about Their Schools (2021) (7)
- Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series. PEPG 10-11. (2010) (7)
- Crowd Control: An International Look at the Relationship between Class Size and Student Achievement. (Research) (2003) (7)
- Teaching Math to the Talented: Which Countries-And States-Are Producing High-Achieving Students? (2011) (7)
- Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development (2022) (6)
- Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects (2021) (6)
- Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices : An Econometric Toolbox (2009) (6)
- Facing the life-cycle trade-off between vocational and general education in apprenticeship systems. An economics-of-education perspective (2019) (6)
- Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries (2019) (6)
- Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolscence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects (2021) (5)
- Single-Parent Families and Student Achievement: An International Perspective * (2015) (5)
- Public opinion and the acceptance and feasibility of educational reforms : EENEE analytical report, prepared for the European Commission (2017) (5)
- School competition and students’ entrepreneurial intentions: international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling (2011) (5)
- The Political Economy of University Tuition Fees: Information Provision and Income Contingency in Representative Survey Experiments (2016) (5)
- How Does East Asia Achieve Its High Educational Performance (2003) (4)
- Efficiency and Equity of European Education and Training Policies (2006) (4)
- Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition: Evidence from Representative Experiments (2021) (4)
- Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children (2018) (4)
- Labor Market Effects of Adult Education Vouchers: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (2010) (4)
- Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide (2009) (4)
- Education and Socioeconomic Development During the Industrialization (2018) (2)
- Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition (2022) (2)
- The Habsburg Empire and the long half-life of economic institutions (2013) (2)
- Public Opinion and the Acceptance and Feasibility of Educational Reforms (2016) (1)
- Recent Insights on the Role of Religion in Economic History (2020) (1)
- An International Perspective on Private Schools (2009) (1)
- iPEHD - The Ifo Prussian Economic History Database (2012) (1)
- Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education (2022) (1)
- Knowledge Capital and Growth (2015) (1)
- School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Equality of Educational Opportunities (2013) (1)
- Peering over the Hedge: How Do the Neighbours Do It? (2012) (1)
- Vocational Education in Apprenticeship Systems: Facing the Life-Cycle Trade-offs (2011) (1)
- The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy (2011) (1)
- Skills, earnings, and employment: exploring causality in the estimation of returns to skills (2017) (1)
- Skills , Mobility , and Growth (2015) (1)
- DOES INNOVATION CAUSE EXPORTS? (2004) (1)
- DOES INNOVATION CAUSE EXPORTS? (2004) (1)
- CV elements that will get you a job interview (2018) (1)
- New Empirical Analysis in the Economics of Education (2010) (1)
- The ifo Education Survey 2014–2021: A New Dataset on Public Preferences for Education Policy in Germany (2022) (1)
- Catch Me If You Can - Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution (2009) (1)
- Growing up in ethnic enclaves: language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children (2022) (1)
- Education and religious participation: city-level evidence from Germany’s secularization period 1890–1930 (2017) (0)
- 'EVERY C ATHOLIC C HILD IN A C ATHOLIC S CHOOL': HISTORICAL RESISTANCE T O S TATE S CHOOLING, CONTEMPORARY P RIVATE C OMPETITION AND S TUDENT ACHIEVEMENT ACROSS COUNTRIES* (2010) (0)
- List of contributors (2021) (0)
- GeRman economic PoLicy (2016) (0)
- 5404 The Information Value of Central School Exams (2015) (0)
- Underachieving in America: Researchers Document International Gaps, a Journalist Seeks the Cause (2014) (0)
- School Choice is Changing the Teaching Profession Charter schools are recruiting teachers from the best colleges (2001) (0)
- New Directions in the Economics of Higher Education (2020) (0)
- How Luther’s Quest for Education Changed German Economic History: 9+5 Theses on the Effects of the Protestant Reformation (2019) (0)
- A Structure for Understanding Growth (2015) (0)
- DIRECTORATE FOR EDUCATION AND SKILLS THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF LEARNING LOSSES (2020) (0)
- CESifo Dice Report 1/2009 (2009) (0)
- iPEHD: The Ifo Prussian Economic History Database (2012) (0)
- I NTERNATIONAL E VIDENCE ON S CHOOL T RACKING : A (2009) (0)
- Teach the World (2015) (0)
- www.econstor.eu Education Promoted Secularization (2014) (0)
- Version Family background , schooling resources , and institutional features : What determines student performance in East Asian countries ? (2008) (0)
- E DUCATION P OLICY AND E QUALITY OF O PPORTUNITY (2005) (0)
- Policies to Improve Knowledge Capital (2015) (0)
- Replication data for: Knowledge Capital and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for US States (2016) (0)
- 2 Theoretical framework : Skills and technological diffusion in a globalized world (2011) (0)
- Public Opinion and the Acceptance and Feasility of Educational Reforms. EENEE Analytical Report No. 28. (2016) (0)
- Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation (2012) (0)
- The Economic Value of Educational Reform (2015) (0)
- No . 1290 DUALISM AND CROSS-COUNTRY GROWTH REGRESSIONS Abstract (2004) (0)
- The effect of investment in children’s education on fertility in 1816 Prussia (2011) (0)
- Do We Need National or European Champions (2011) (0)
- How is Student Learning Affected by Different Types of Testing (2017) (0)
- Ludger Woessmann Recommends “Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood” by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, and Jonah E. Rockoff (2019) (0)
- The Political Economy of ILSAs in Education: The Role of Knowledge Capital in Economic Growth (2021) (0)
- Testing with accountability improves student achievement (2018) (0)
- No . 1290 DUALISM AND CROSS-COUNTRY GROWTH REGRESSIONS Abstract (2004) (0)
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