Sancassani, Pietro - 2023
increase in the salience of education induced by the unexpectedly low performance of German students in the PISA 2000 test …-the German "PISA shock". I combine machine-learning and text analysis techniques to obtain topic-specific measures of … polarization of parliamentary debates. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the PISA shock caused an 8.8% of a …