the impact of three educational institutions on student achievement. Chapter 5 evaluates the success of the Federal … homelands in the aftermath of World War II. The econometric analyses are based on different micro data sets and employ micro …

Low-cost private schools are ubiquitous across the developing world. This book explores their nature and extent in some … of the world’s most difficult places: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan. The accepted wisdom of international …

educational opportunities and on the level of student performance achieved in education systems. The study applies different waves … 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 …

features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on … student background at two important stages in a student's life as well as to explain cross-country differences in educational … opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country …

the world. Later we saw the same pattern in higher education in Europe and Australia. Since the beginning of this new 21st … further exacerbated by the advent of several universities ranking organizations, such as, the Times World Reputation Rankings … (UK), US News Best Global Universities, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai) and QS World Rankings. In …