cognitive skills. In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada using PISA data. We use … PISA tests scores over 7 cycles, from 2000 to 2018, to provide an exhaustive portrait of the evolution of the tests scores … differences in PISA scores, in reading, maths and science, are large but unwavering. In other words inequality by SES is stable …

In 2000, the OECD began the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial survey of the knowledge … PISA test scores in reading and math. The SES used is more conventional then the arbitrary character of the index developed … by PISA. First, average gaps in students' educational attainment between the lower and top SES quintiles, across …

This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new … measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population …

Attendance of pre-primary institutions is positively associated with PISA test scores inmost countries. Several …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public …