Schooling Attainment, Schooling Expenditures, and Test Scores What Causes Economic Growth?

The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling and test scores. Estimates from the two methods are in close agreement. We Þnd that the effects of sch...

Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania

An estimated one billion people globally are at risk of iodine deficiency disorder (IDD), the only micronutrient deficiency known to have significant, non-reversible effects on cognitive development. This research evaluates the impact of reductions in fetal IDD on child schooling attainment in Tanzania that resulted from an intensive distribution of iodized oil capsules (IOC) in several distric...

What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills ? Impacts of Pre - Schooling , Schooling

What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Influences of Pre-Schooling, Schooling, and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling, and that schooling is exogenous. Drawing on a rich longitudinal data set to estimate production functions for adult reading-comprehension cognitive skills and adult nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that (1) Schooling attainment has a significant and substantial effect on adult reading...

What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-Schooling, Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala

Most investigations of the importance of and the determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (a) they are produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But these assumptions may lead to misleading inferences about impacts of schooling and of pre-schooling and post-schooling experiences on adult cognitive skills. This study uses an unusually rich longit...