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Ludger Woessmann
93 works
· latest 2025
· 5 institutions
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ORCID 0000-0002-6912-2319
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Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
Science Advances
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2025
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4 authors
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Open access
42
citations
Religion and Growth
Journal of Economic Literature
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2024
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3 authors
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Open access
47
citations
Global universal basic skills: Current deficits and implications for world development
Journal of Development Economics
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2023
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3 authors
135
citations
The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Economic Policy
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2023
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2 authors
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Open access
100
citations
Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries
The Economic Journal
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2021
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4 authors
74
citations
COVID-19 and educational inequality: How school closures affect low- and high-achieving students
European Economic Review
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2021
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5 authors
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Open access
260
citations
Religion in economic history: a survey
Elsevier eBooks
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2021
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3 authors
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chapter
88
citations
The economic impacts of learning losses
OECD education working papers
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2020
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2 authors
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report
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Open access
335
citations
Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
National Bureau of Economic Research
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2020
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4 authors
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report
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Open access
22
citations
The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
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2020
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3 authors
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Open access
126
citations
Education, knowledge capital, and economic growth
Elsevier eBooks
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2020
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2 authors
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chapter
232
citations
Covid-19 and Educational Inequality: How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2020
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5 authors
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preprint
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Open access
76
citations
Testing
National Bureau of Economic Research
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2018
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3 authors
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report
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Open access
12
citations
Knowledge Capital and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for US States
American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
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2017
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3 authors
92
citations
Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
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2017
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3 authors
175
citations
Coping with change: International differences in the returns to skills
Economics Letters
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2017
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4 authors
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Open access
105
citations
School Resources and Student Achievement: A Review of Cross-Country Economic Research
Methodology of educational measurement and assessment
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2016
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2 authors
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chapter
102
citations
The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
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2016
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1 author
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Open access
251
citations
General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Lifecycle
The Journal of Human Resources
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2016
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4 authors
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Open access
675
citations
Knowledge capital, growth, and the East Asian miracle
Science
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2016
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2 authors
129
citations
The economic case for education
Education Economics
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2015
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1 author
163
citations
Universal Basic Skills
OECD eBooks
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2015
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2 authors
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book
97
citations
The Knowledge Capital of Nations
The MIT Press eBooks
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2015
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2 authors
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book
573
citations
The Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth
MIT Press Books
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2015
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2 authors
235
citations
Returns to skills around the world: Evidence from PIAAC
European Economic Review
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2014
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4 authors
656
citations
The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long‐Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
The Economic Journal
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2014
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4 authors
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Open access
497
citations
Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA
Journal of Development Economics
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2012
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3 authors
415
citations
Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Journal of Economic Growth
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2012
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2 authors
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Open access
1,324
citations
Schooling, educational achievement, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Journal of Development Economics
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2012
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2 authors
324
citations
The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Journal of Development Economics
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2012
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2 authors
291
citations
The impact of an adult education voucher program: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Journal of Public Economics
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2012
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4 authors
83
citations
Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2012
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3 authors
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preprint
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83
citations
School competition and students’ entrepreneurial intentions: international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Small Business Economics
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2011
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2 authors
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Open access
79
citations
General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
National Bureau of Economic Research
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2011
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3 authors
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report
128
citations
Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
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2011
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3 authors
221
citations
How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?
Economic Policy
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2011
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2 authors
182
citations
The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Handbook of the economics of education
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2011
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2 authors
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chapter
342
citations
General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2011
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3 authors
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preprint
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Open access
189
citations
Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2011
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3 authors
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preprint
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Open access
172
citations
Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay
Economics of Education Review
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2010
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1 author
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Open access
160
citations
The trade-off between fertility and education: evidence from before the demographic transition
Journal of Economic Growth
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2010
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3 authors
253
citations
‘Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School’: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition and Student Achievement across Countries
The Economic Journal
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2010
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2 authors
222
citations
The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
National Bureau of Economic Research
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2010
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2 authors
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report
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Open access
280
citations
Institutional Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
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2010
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1 author
72
citations
The effect of Protestantism on education before the industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia
Economics Letters
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2010
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2 authors
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Open access
132
citations
Education and Economic Growth
Elsevier eBooks
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2010
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2 authors
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other
406
citations
The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2010
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2 authors
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preprint
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Open access
359
citations
The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2010
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2 authors
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preprint
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Open access
275
citations
The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long-Run Economic Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes.
OECD Publishing (NJ1)
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2010
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2 authors
267
citations
The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
SSRN Electronic Journal
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2010
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2 authors
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preprint
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89
citations
Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
National Bureau of Economic Research
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2009
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2 authors
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report
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106
citations
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History *
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
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2009
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2 authors
1,144
citations
School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
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2009
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4 authors
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book
180
citations
Families, schools and primary-school learning: evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective
Applied Economics
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2009
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1 author
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Open access
74
citations
Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
National Bureau of Economic Research
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2009
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2 authors
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report
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Open access
396
citations
Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation. NBER Working Paper No. 14633.
National Bureau of Economic Research
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2009
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2 authors
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report
107
citations
International evidence on school tracking: A review
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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2009
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1 author
105
citations
Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in Nineteenth‐century Prussia*
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
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2008
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2 authors
181
citations
The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic Development
Journal of Economic Literature
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2008
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2 authors
2,471
citations
Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
Kyklos
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2008
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3 authors
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Open access
546
citations