Since their first implementation in 2000, the PISA studies have attracted public attention and spurred the demand for …. Identification is based on within-country variation between PISA 2000 and PISA 2009. The results indicate that comparing schools by …

more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …

to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …

to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …

In 2000, the OECD began the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial survey of the knowledge … PISA test scores in reading and math. The SES used is more conventional then the arbitrary character of the index developed … by PISA. First, average gaps in students' educational attainment between the lower and top SES quintiles, across …

-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA study from 2000 to 2009. We later confirm our results using synthetic control methods …

Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational … outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition … methods in order to identify the role of these factors for different groups of students. Our results show that school and …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …