We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....

Education systems are integral subsystems of national innovation systems. Due to the increasing technological complexity the generation, application and diffusion of new knowledge and the transformation of knowledge into new products and processes imply increasing educational requirements to the...

We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...

Die konventionellen Indikatoren für Bildungsinput und ?output deuten darauf hin, dass sich die meisten Beitrittsländer in Bezug auf das Humankapital nicht bedeutend vom EUDurchschnitt unterscheiden. Die verfügbaren Messungen erfassen jedoch unter Umständen nicht den wirtschaftlich relevanten...

Kiből lesz ma tanár Magyarországon? Különböznek-e a tanárképzésre jelentkezők, a tanári pályát választók képességei a más szakon továbbtanulók, a más pályát választók képességeitől? Mekkora szerepe van a tanári pálya választásában a tanárként, illetve a többi...

We live in a time, when few people concern of that, why is so few women in the science; although nowadays is coequality between men and women. We would not to forget the reality; that women could have to study on the universities only from the 19th century. That could be one of the reasons, why...

This paper presents a model where teacher effects on long-run outcomes reflect effects on both cognitive skills (measured by test-scores) and non-cognitive skills (measured by non-test-score outcomes). Consistent with the model, results from administrative data show that teachers have causal...

In the nineties Argentina implemented a large education reform (Ley Federal de Educación – LFE) that mainly implied the extension of compulsory education in two additional years. The timing in the implementation substantially varied across provinces, providing a source of identification for...

Schooling. This study estimates the respective contributions of schooling and income in determining the fertility transition within the US states between 1840 and 1980. While evidence suggests that both relationships are negative and statistically signi?cant, the most robust determinant of the...