This paper investigates the reading of fiction books by 15-year-olds in 18 OECD countries. It appears that girls read … fiction books is influenced by parental education, family structure, and the number of books and TVs at home. Reading comic … books does not affect the reading of fiction books. Parents who want their children to read fiction books frequently should …

This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these …

are able to match organizational practices at the school level with students' outcomes in a math standardized test. We … managerial practices as the UK (the best performer), it would close the gap in the math OECD-PISA test with respect to the OECD …

these biases. The experiments yield three further findings: (iii) network cognition is affected by the subject's location …, (iv) the accuracy of network cognition varies with the nature of the network, and (v) limitations in network cognition …