We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student …

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 …

In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada. We use PISA tests scores over 7 … PISA scores, in reading, maths and science, are large but unwavering. In other words inequality by SES is stable, and …

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 …