Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay...

Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we discuss three different measures of education, and consider their relationship to the distribution of income as measured by the Gini coefficient as well as to economic growth across...

Ludger Wößmann legt in seinem auf die Bildung fokussierten Beitrag dar, dass gerade Basiskompetenzen, wie sie von internationalen Schülervergleichstests in Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften erhoben werden, ein entscheidender Einflussfaktor auf das langfristige Wachstum von Volkswirtschaften...

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level...

Die Ergebnisse der PISA-Studie 2000 stellten für Deutschland eine große Enttäuschung dar: auf allen getesteten Gebieten der PISA-Studie lagen die Leistungen der deutschen Schüler, die daran teilnahmen, weit unter dem Durchschnitt der Gesamtergebnisse. Für Monika Hohlmeier, bayerische...

Education can serve skill formation and socialisation goals both of which are conducive to desirable economic outcomes. However, the political manipulation of the school curricula can give rise to indoctrination effects with counterproductive welfare consequences on its pupils. This paper...

Sollte das deutsche Schulsystem auf eine zweigliedrige Struktur aus Sekundarschulen und Gymnasien umgestellt und die Hauptschule abgeschafft werden? Annette Schavan, Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, spricht sich für den Erhalt der Hauptschulen aus: "Eine starke Hauptschule war, ist...

Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...