Gemessen an der Wachstumsrate des realen Bruttoinlandsprodukts weist Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich in den letzten Jahren eine besonders schlechte Wirtschaftsleistung auf. Ob dies eher eine ungünstige konjunkturelle Entwicklung widerspiegelt oder ob sich dahinter eine langfristige...

"I argue that progress in understanding economic development (as in other branches of economics) must come from the investigation of mechanisms; the associated empirical analysis can usefully employ a wide range of experimental and non-experimental methods. I discuss three different areas of...

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...