L. Wössmann, Uni-Professor und Abteilungsleiter am ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, vertritt die Meinung, dass mangelnde Schulbildung, wie sie durch PISA getestet wird, eine zentrale Ursache langfristig entstandener wirtschaflticher Probleme ist. In diesem Zusammenhang und mithilfe einer...

The effective use of school resources is a policy priority across OECD countries. The OECD Reviews of School Resources explore how resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality and efficiency of school education. The series considers four types of resources:...

Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD countries the price of schooling has increased faster in...