Personal behaviour and choices in daily life, from what we eat to how we get to work or heat our homes, have a significant – and growing – effect on the environment. But why are some households greener than others? And what factors motivate green household choices? <P>Answering these questions...</p>

<ul> <li> Greater anxiety towards mathematics is associated with lower scores in mathematics, both between and within countries. </li> <li>The better a student’s schoolmates perform in mathematics, the greater the student’s anxiety towards mathematics. </li> <li>Teachers’ use of formative assessment practices is...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> While PISA reveals large gender differences in reading, in favour of 15-year-old girls, the gap is narrower when digital reading skills are tested. Indeed, the Survey of Adult Skills suggests that there are no significant gender differences in digital literacy proficiency among 16-29...</li></ul>

Despite the increased importance of cyclically-adjusted measures of labour market slack for policymaking, estimates of the NAIRU have become increasingly fragile. Particularly for euro area countries, NAIRU estimates represent a crucial input to compute cyclically-adjusted budget balances...

<ul> <li> In Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, participation rates in adult education and learning are over 60%, but they are one-third – or below – in Italy, the Russian Federation and the Slovak Republic. </li> <li> The more highly educated adults are, the more likely they are to...</li></ul>

<ul> <li> Teachers report participating in more non-school than school embedded professional development (i.e. professional development that is grounded in teachers daily professional practices). </li> <li> Participation in non-school and school embedded professional development varies greatly between countries....</li></ul>

<ul> <li> Among 25-34 year-olds, more women than men hold a tertiary qualification in 33 of the 36 countries for which data are comparable. </li> <li> Gender differences still exist in certain fields, with more men studying science, computing and engineering, and with women dominating education and health and...</li></ul>

In 2006 the OECD Council adopted a recommendation setting forth a framework for cross-border co-operation in the enforcement of laws against spam. This report provides information on the progress in implementation measures, mainly based on a questionnaire of OECD member’s experiences.

The International Commission on Radiological Protection was first established in 1928, as the International X-ray and Radium Protection Committee, linked to the International Congresses of Radiology. In 1950 it was restructured and renamed. Although its parent organisation remains the...

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