We use information gathered from 122 studies on the effects of high school degrees on wages in different countries worldwide to carry out a meta-analysis that shows high school degrees have a statistically significant effect on wages of nearly 8%. This effect varies either when the review is...

En la última década, la falta de empleo ha mermado la economía de los países miembros de la Unión Europea, que se trazó como objetivo estratégico para la primera década del siglo XXI convertirse en una economía competitiva y dinámica basada en el conocimiento (Consejo de Lisboa, 2000)....

In this paper, we empirically explore how the often reported relationship between overeducation and wages can best be understood. Exploiting the newly published Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data (OECD 2013), we are able to achieve a better estimation of...

We analyse the effects of school autonomy on the quality of education in Jordan and Tunisia, by using the OECD PISA 2009 database. Results reveal that most autonomy related variables are not significant. Accordingly, schools with more autonomy management and facing more competition do not lead...

In Colombia and Latin America, barely one half of students who are admitted to higher education actually completes their studies and obtains a college degree within a six-year period. Such incommensurable attrition poses huge social and economic costs, given the inverse relationship between...

Improving educational quality is an important public policy goal. However, success requires identifying factors associated with student achievement. At the core of these proposals is the principle that increased public school quality can make school system more efficient, resulting in...

Teachers’ evaluations in many states include information about their students test score gains. In this paper, we describe the assumptions that are required for teacher value-added (TVA) estimates to be treated as unbiased causal effects. We compare commonly used TVA models on policy-relevant...

Using a unique institutional change this paper provides causal estimates on the long-term effects of early educational selection. During the postsocialist transition the structure of the Hungarian education system changed gradually as new earlyselective tracks were established. These elite...

Educational policy is a very complex process: the all too familiar assertion “we should invest more in education” is really of little help. Investment in education, something difficult to reject, competes however with many other public expenditures also highly beneficial from a social point...