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

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro …-level data in combination with its longitudinal continuation in the LSAY data, to measure the degree to which individual PISA …

outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition …

, the paper compares the PISA results of first-generation pupils in 2000 with the scores of children tested in 2009, whose … parents immigrated after the policy changed. We find that around 75% of the 40-point increase in the PISA score of first …

identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. In the first stage …

Auswirkungen von Reformen von Tests und Prüfungssystemen in 59 Ländern in den Jahren zwischen 2000 und 2015 anhand der PISA …

, reading and science using the PISA 2012 dataset. Multilevel models are used in the estimation. The results suggest that the … extent of the gender gap is indeed associated with certain characteristics of the various education systems. First, applying …

While educational achievement surveys revolutionised research on education cross-nationally, the surveys have been …