Test scores and economic growth: update and extension

Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren and Henrik Jordahl

Research indicates that education quality - measured by test scores in international student surveys - predicts economic growth. In this paper, we extend previous findings up to 2016 and analyse test scores of upper-secondary school students only. We find that the positive relationship between growth and test scores holds in both cases. The share of top-performing students exhibits a stronger correlation with economic growth than does the share of students who meet basic requirements.

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Year of publication:	October 1, 2021
Authors:	Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel ; Jordahl, Henrik
Publisher:	Stockholm, Sweden : Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Subject:	Education \| Economic growth \| PISA \| TIMSS \| Top-performing students \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Bildungsniveau \| Educational achievement \| Humankapital \| Human capital \| OECD-Staaten \| OECD countries \| Vergleich \| Comparison \| Studierende \| Students \| Bildungsökonomik \| Economics of education \| Welt \| World

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 7 Seiten)
Series:	IFN working paper. - Stockholm, ZDB-ID 2483275-3. - Vol. no. 1408 (2021)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/247890 [Handle]
Classification:	i25 ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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