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 …

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity … international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent …

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity … international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public …

, 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 …

into the labor market are a contentious issue in the literature on the economics of education. Different studies on, for … determinants of test success in international performance studies like PISA into a theoretical model of cognitive achievement and …

from the OECD’s PISA 2018 survey and by means of the application of efficient algorithms, we highlight that the number of …