and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …This paper examines critically the presumption that, other things equal, private schooling offers higher quality … education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public …

books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …