In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country’s development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann...

Ludger Wößmann legt in seinem auf die Bildung fokussierten Beitrag dar, dass gerade Basiskompetenzen, wie sie von internationalen Schülervergleichstests in Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften erhoben werden, ein entscheidender Einflussfaktor auf das langfristige Wachstum von Volkswirtschaften...

The Czech education system is performing reasonably well. Secondary-school participation and completion rates have traditionally been high, and continue to be so. PISA results are above average, with Czech students performing among the best in the OECD in problem-solving abilities, particularly...

This paper uses a new measure of human capital that works much better in explaining productivity in OECD countries compared to earlier measures of human capital to investigate the educational policy drivers of human capital. A novel methodology is utilised by interacting educational policies,...