Research indicates that education quality – measured by test scores ininternational student surveys – predicts economic growth. In this paper, we extendprevious findings up to 2016 and analyse test scores of upper-secondary school studentsonly. We find that the positive relationship between...

An analysis of how the profit motive drove competition and therefore improvements in the Swedish education systemThis IEA Discussion Paper looks at the role of for-profit schools in Sweden and for the first time provides quantitative evidence regarding how these schools perform. The competition...

Education reforms must go furtherIncentivising Excellence considers the conditions that need to prevail for school choice to fulfil its promise in relation to improving educational outcomes. It contends that without attention to system design and supporting reforms geared to fundamentally...

Government reforms to state pension age must go further and fasterSummary:· Despite substantial improvements in life expectancy, the employment rate among men aged 55-59 decreased from over 90 per cent to less than 70 per cent between 1968 and the end of the 1990s. The figures for men aged...

Dis-location considers the theory and empirical research behind the impact of school choice on residential segregation and educational inequality. One of the most vocal arguments against school choice is that the assertion that it increases segregation by lifting some and 'drowning' others. Is...

We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in these attitudes depending on background: immigrant students have substantially and significantly more positive attitudes to school than native children, a difference that...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Sweden dismantled an education system that was strongly influenced by German, Neo-Humanist pedagogical principles in favor of a progressive, student-centered system. This article suggests this was in large part due to a fatal misinterpretation of the...