education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

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

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

influx can also increase the intensity of human capital accumulation among native adolescents who are enrolled in school …. Using the PISA micro data and implementing a quasi-experimental empirical strategy designed to exploit (i) the time … Turkish education system after 2016, which gave me the opportunity to use 2015 and 2018 PISA waves in a way to isolate the the …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The …, informs about important policy reforms following the PISA shock in 2000. It further gives a description of the current … situation and persisting inequalities at secondary schools, with particular attention paid to students with migratory …

-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students …Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big …' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students' ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested …

, reading and science using the PISA 2012 dataset. Multilevel models are used in the estimation. The results suggest that the … a difference-in-differences estimation method, it was found that early tracking has a direct effect on the gender gap in …

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and … outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition …