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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
120
Citations
97469
World Ranking
34
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Eric A. Hanushek is affiliated with the Hoover Institution in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with notable contributions to the subfields of Education, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, and Language and Linguistics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics of study, including:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Eric A. Hanushek has authored multiple papers with significant citation counts. Recent papers include:

  • "The economic impacts of learning losses," 2020, OECD education working papers
  • "Global universal basic skills: Current deficits and implications for world development," 2023, Journal of Development Economics
  • "A quantitative look at the economic impact of the European Union's educational goals," 2020, Education Economics
  • "Education and Economic Growth," 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
  • "Addressing cross-national generalizability in educational impact evaluation," 2020, International Journal of Educational Development

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Eric A. Hanushek include Ludger Woessmann, Lavinia Kinne, Guido Schwerdt, Steven G. Rivkin, and Rolf van der Velden.

Publication venues where their work commonly appears include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Human Resources
  • Journal of Development Economics
  • Education Economics
  • Science Advances

Among awards received, Eric A. Hanushek was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

    Steven G. Rivkin;Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain

  • The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools.

    Eric A Hanushek

  • The role of education quality for economic growth

    Eric A. Hanushek;Eric A. Hanushek;Eric A. Hanushek;Ludger Woessmann

  • Statistical methods for social scientists

    Eric A. Hanushek

  • The role of cognitive skills in economic development

    Eric Hanushek;Ludger Woessmann

  • Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance: An Update

    Eric A. Hanushek

  • Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Schooling, Labor-Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations

    Eric A. Hanushek;Dennis D. Kimko

  • THE FAILURE OF INPUT-BASED SCHOOLING POLICIES

    Eric A. Hanushek

  • Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

    Eric Alan Hanushek;Eric Alan Hanushek;Eric Alan Hanushek;Ludger Woessmann;Ludger Woessmann

  • The Trade-off between Child Quantity and Quality

    Eric A. Hanushek

  • Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

    Eric Alan Hanushek;Ludger Woessmann

  • The Impact of Differential Expenditures on School Performance

    Eric A. Hanushek

  • Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Jacob M. Markman;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Estimation of Educational Production Functions

    Eric A. Hanushek

  • The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality.

    Eric A. Hanushek

  • General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

    Eric A. Hanushek;Ludger Woessmann;Lei Zhang

  • Handbook of the economics of education

    Eric Alan Hanushek;Finis Welch;Stephen Machin;Ludger Woessmann

  • The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

    Eric A. Hanushek;Ludger Woessmann

  • Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

    Eric A. Hanushek;Guido Schwerdt;Simon Wiederhold;Ludger Woessmann

  • Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation. NBER Working Paper No. 14633.

    Eric A. Hanushek;Ludger Woessmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Ludger Woessmann
Ludger Woessmann Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Steven G. Rivkin
Steven G. Rivkin Amherst College
John F. Kain
John F. Kain The University of Texas at Dallas
Dean T. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco
Charles Ka Yui Leung
Charles Ka Yui Leung City University of Hong Kong
Victor Lavy
Victor Lavy University of Warwick
John M. Quigley
John M. Quigley University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Neidell
Matthew Neidell Columbia University
Janet Currie
Janet Currie Princeton University
Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University

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