Im Herbst werden die Vereinten Nationen die Nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele festlegen, die den von 2000–2015 geltenden Millenniums-Entwicklungszielen folgen sollen. Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University, und Ludger Wößmann, ifo Ins­titut und Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,...

We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....