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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay...

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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493943

Do private schools increase academic achievement? : evidence from France

Moulin, Léonard - In: Education economics 31 (2023) 2, pp. 247-274

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Human capital and national institutional quality : are TIMSS, PISA, and national average IQ robust predictors?

Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International …

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Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unication education variable in the BASiD data set

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Nolte, André - 2016

Using combined data from the German Pension Insurance and the Federal Employment Agency (BASiD), this study proposes different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on education-related periods that are creditable for...

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Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD Data Set

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André - In: Journal for labour market research 50 (2017) 1, pp. 45-65

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Schooling resources, educational institutions, and student performance : the international evidence

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000 - Revised version

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international … institutions, scrutiny of achievement, and teacher influence on teaching methods. A large influence of teacher unions on curriculum … are not caused by differences in schooling resources but are mainly due to differences in educational institutions. …

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