, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. … uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …. Correspondingly, international differences in institutional structures of school systems such as external exams, school autonomy …

, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. … uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …. Correspondingly, international differences in institutional structures of school systems such as external exams, school autonomy …

, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. … uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …. Correspondingly, international differences in institutional structures of school systems such as external exams, school autonomy …

, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement … uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …. Correspondingly, international differences in institutional structures of school systems such as external exams, school autonomy …

, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement … uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …. Correspondingly, international differences in institutional structures of school systems such as external exams, school autonomy …

system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany …, but not with spending, while higher equality of opportunity is associated with reduced tracking. In a model that pools …

system, but pursue different education policies. Education production function models are estimated using state-level PISA-E … associated with reduced tracking. In models that pool German states with OECD countries and combine up to 54 state and country …

system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany …, but not with spending, while higher equality of opportunity is associated with reduced tracking. In a model that pools …

focus on the interaction between the quantity and the quality of instruction. Using international TIMSS data, I exploit … are significantly larger for students with better qualified teachers, resulting in an increase in test scores of 0.04 to 0 …

Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapter 2 … sheds light on the interaction of two inputs into the education production function: instruction time and teacher …