The aim of this paper is to propose a new database allowing a comparative evaluation of the relative performance of schooling systems around the world. We measure this performance through pupils achievement in standardized tests. We merge all existing regional and international student...

Le rôle de l’éducation dans la croissance économique semble faire partie des vérités les mieux partagées entre économistes. Au tournant des années 2000, il a néanmoins fait l’objet de nouveaux débats. Depuis, une série de rapports destinés au monde politique ont fait état de la...

The development of education (essentially primary schooling) has been considered since the beginning of the nineteenth century as a major process and notably characteristic of developed capitalist societies. This being so, in spite of abundant literature devoted to this extremely delicate...

This article is aimed firstly at providing an empirical test of the causality link between fertility and education in France after World War II and subsequently at determining whether the underlying mechanism of the link was in agreement more with Becker's theory or that of Easterlin. It was...