-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from …

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …

This paper explores the influence of socio-economic status on the education performance of male and female students in … Bosnia and Herzegovina, utilizing data from the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The study defines … key terms such as education, socio-economic status, and international student assessments, emphasizing the significance of …

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity … international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent …

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity … international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

from the OECD’s PISA 2018 survey and by means of the application of efficient algorithms, we highlight that the number of …

pre-primary education and achievement test scores in primary school. Relying on the first-of-its-kind 2015 wave data from … the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), the present study analyses the associations between students …’ performance in science and a broad set of variables, including regressors that proxy pre-primary education. Employing a Gini …

combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find that opposing effects of patience (positive) and risk …

combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find that opposing effects of patience (positive) and risk …