We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students differ not only in terms of their families' ability to pay...

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...

In this paper we use English school level data from 1993 to 2008 aggregated up to small neighbourhood areas to look at the determinants of the demand for private education in England from the ages of 7 until 15 (the last year of compulsory schooling). We focus on the relative importance of price...

We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the potential biases in estimating the effects of taking the GED path to postsecondary education. Lacking...

In this paper I investigate the extent to which the Irish higher education system promotes inclusion or diversion in relation to social selectivity. In doing so, stratification processes are examined for two educational outcomes: inequality in the type of higher education institution attended...

Ziele dieser Studie sind zum einen die Bereitstellung eines vergleichenden Überblicks über Entwicklung, Zielsetzungen und Organisationnationaler Lernstandserhebungen in den Ländern des Eurydice-Netzes und zum anderen das Verständnis der Verwendung der Ergebnisse nationaler...

Bildung spielt eine zentrale Rolle für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung eines Landes, daher hat die Ampelregierung im Koalitionsvertrag diverse Vorhaben in der Bildungspolitik angekündigt. Neben dem DigitalPakt Schule, der die digitale Infrastruktur an Schulen verbessern soll, sollen das...

So wie die Währung im Wirtschaftssystem die Funktion eines "Wertmaßstabes" innehat, können einheitliche Leistungsüberprüfungen im Schulsystem als Bewertungsmaßstab fungieren, der zur Überwindung von Informationsasymmetrien beiträgt und opportunistisches Verhalten dezentraler...