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Pisa : What Makes the Difference? Explaining the Gap in Pisa Test Scores between Finland and Germany
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2008
The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany … scores than Finnish students. The results imply that early streaming in Germany penalizes students in lower school types and … school types. Overall, the variation in test scores can be explained much better by the observable characteristics in Germany …
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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? : A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262036
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The Effect of Relative Age in the First Grade of Primary School on Long-Term Scholastic Results : International Comparative Evidence Using Pisa 2003
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2008
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pupil's relative age within the first grade of primary school on math and reading test scores at age 15. The main objective is to evaluate the long-term causal effect of relative age in the first grades of primary school on pupil's test in 16 different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049274
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274183
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Fundamental determinants of school efficiency and equity: German states as a microcosm for OECD countries
Wößmann, Ludger - 2007
legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal … system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268363
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Kick it like Özil? Decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283938
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The Effective Tax Burden of Companies and on Highly Skilled Manpower : Tax Policy Strategies in a Globalized Economy
Elschner, Christina; Lammersen, Lothar; Overesch, Michael; … - 2015
Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly qualified labour in 33 locations across Europe and the United States. We then correlate...
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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2004
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261826
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Education policies and practices: What have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012
This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates of educational outcomes. It also surveys the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284013
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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274166