significant positive impact of private school growth on literacy while its effect on gender gap in literacy remains rather limited …Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be … this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a …

India. We measure teacher s bias through an index capturing teacher s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls attitude …

than serving a particular socio-economic group. We exploit this fact to test whether the gender composition of schools … single-sex schooling reduces the gap. If anything, the gender differential is larger for children educated in single …

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy …

between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …

We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in …

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a … wide range of literacy outcomes – using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross …-sectional data there is a weak negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age. However, this relationship could …

nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. This article examines the relationship … between age and literacy skills in a sample of OECD countries using three internationally comparable surveys. By pooling the … survey data across time we can separate birth cohort and ageing effects. In doing so we find literacy skills decline with age …

Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face … rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains hugely controversial amongst educationalists and has seldom been studied by …

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross …-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating … that literacy declines with age, especially after age 45. However, this relationship could reflect some combination of age …