Ludger Wößmann, Leiter des Bereichs Humankapital und Innovation und Professor an der LMU, unterstrich die Bedeutung von Bildung für die wirtschaftliche Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Seiner Ansicht nach liegt ein zentraler Ansatzpunkt sowohl für ein hohes Leistungsniveau als auch für ausgeglichene...

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...

International comparative studies of student performance have initiated political discussions in countries all over the world on how to improve the educational achievement of students. The empirical evidence suggests that central exams help to achieve higher student performance. Central exams...

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...