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This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student …
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This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698340
, 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 …
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of the international student achievement tests TIMSS and PISA in a cross-country analysis approach. Following an … introductory chapter, the datasets are introduced and the aspects of the estimation method discussed. Chapter 3 analyses the impact …
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-level regressions with PISA data exploit between-subject variation to overcome bias from unobserved country heterogeneity and control …
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This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
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I use Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from over 300,000 individual students within 44 … school in 2009. The results suggest that private schooling increases student effort on PISA tests, as measured by test … addition, I find that private schooling substantially increases PISA test scores, and that stronger non-cognitive skills are …
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We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319136
determinant of international differences in student performance. Results are supported by fixed-effects estimation that uses …
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