Sample selectivity and the validity of international student achievement tests in economic research

Hanushek, Eric A. and Wößmann, Ludger (2011): Sample selectivity and the validity of international student achievement tests in economic research. In: Economics Letters, Vol. 110, No. 2: pp. 79-82

Abstract

Larger rates of exclusion, non-response, and age-specific enrollment are related to better country average scores on international student achievement tests. But accounting for sample selectivity does not alter existing evidence that academic achievement enters importantly in economic growth regressions. ; Sample selection International student achievement tests Economic growth

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Economics; Economics > Chairs > CESifo-Professorship for Empirical Innovation Economics
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• Language: English