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....

We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...

Nichts ist umsonst - dies gilt insbesondere für ein Hochschulstudium, ideell wie finanziell. Selbst wenn keine Studiengebühren erhoben werden, entstehen den Studierenden im Rahmen ihres Studiums erhebliche Ausgaben. Wie viel kostet also das Studium? Welchen Beitrag leisten demgegenüber der...