Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

Preschool Education and Later Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: German and International Evidence - We present international and German evidence on the association between preschool education and later cognitive and non-cognitive skills based on data from TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS, and the DJI...

Der Festvortrag von Thomas Rachel, die Statements von Roland Berger, Peter Müller und Ludger Wößmann sowie die ifo Konjunkturprognose sind hier veröffentlicht.

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

Das Abitur hat in Deutschland eine lange Tradition als Reifeprüfung, die die Studierfähigkeit attestieren und damit den Zugang zum Hochschulsystem eröffnen soll. Allerdings werden seit Jahrzehnten beträchtliche qualitative Unterschiede hinsichtlich der Aufgabenstellungen und der...

Trotz leichter und begrüßenswerter Verbesserungen belegen die kürzlich veröffentlichten neuesten PISA-Ergebnisse, dass es bei den Leistungen der deutschen Schülerinnen und Schüler im internationalen Vergleich seit der ersten PISA-Studie aus dem Jahr 2000 nicht den »großen Ruck« gegeben...

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...