The German education system is currently undergoing a reorientation from formerly exclusively input-based control towards output-based measures of quality assurance in schools and universities. A crucial instrument in this reform process is the implementation of educational standards. This...

This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. To this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a German native pupil, whereas others believe it was...

Das Projekt wurde im Rahmen einer Kooperation des Forschungsinstituts für Öffentliche Verwaltung bei der Deutschen Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer und des HWWA-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - Hamburg als Auftragsarbeit für die Behörde für Schule, Jugend und...

This paper provides evidence on the sources of the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls. In particular, we investigate the role of the share of female mathematics teachers in secondary school and of pupils self-confidence and extrinsic motivation in mathematics. We find...

This paper analyzes how student achievement is affected by resource increases in the Swedish compulsory school due to a special government grant that was enforced in the academic year of 2001/02. The analysis is based on register data that contains all students that completed compulsory...

[...] The aim of the study is to provide a comparative overview of policy and practice concerning the development and implementation of key competences in the education systems of the 27 Member States of the European Union. In particular, the study assesses the implementation of the 8 key...

In the continuing debate over how to improve education systems, many people argue that teachers` salaries need to be increased. This paper seeks to establish a reliable method for analyzing the issue using household survey data from Bolivia.

With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. Urban origin teachers and women are more averse to remote locations than rural origin teachers...

This report investigates the effect of employment in a job involving care work - conceptualized as work in occupations where workers provide face-to-face services that strengthen the physical health and safety or the physical, cognitive, or emotional skills of those they serve - on the relative...

Die Personallage an den beruflichen Schulen in Deutschland wird sich kurzfristig entspannen. Aktuelle Berechnungen des DIW Berlin zeigen, dass der Ersatzbedarf geringer ausfällt als bislang angenommen, hauptsächlich weil sich die Bedingungen, vorzeitig aus dem Schuldienst auszuscheiden,...