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...

General government activity in the field of education has recently assumed new interest due to the importance of two analytical objectives: a) the existence of substitution or complementary processes between public and private expenditure in education; b) the importance of public expenditure in...

Most studies of homework effectiveness relate time spent on homework to test performance, and find a nonmonotonic relationship. A theoretical model shows that this can occur even when additional homework helps all students because of the way in which variables are defined. However, some students...

This paper analyses the effectiveness of child-subsidy support policies in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility, child quality choices and human capital formation. It is shown, somewhat paradoxically, that only if the preference for the quality of...

Este estudio analiza la movilidad social, la unión semejante y la distribución del ingreso en Colombia. Se encuentra que en Colombia la movilidad social es baja y la unión semejante es alta, pero se observa una combinación positiva a través del tiempo: un aumento en la movilidad social y...