As governments around the world struggle with doing more with less, efficiency analysis climbs to the top of the policy agenda. This paper derives efficiency measures for more than 8,600 schools in 30 countries, using PISA 2012 data and a bootstrap version of Data Envelopment Analysis as a...

To provide evidence on the drivers of the quality of education in the country, this study focuses on the correlates of test performance of 15-year-old students in the Philippines. It aims to quantitatively measure the roles of individual, family, and school characteristics in test performance....

Attendance of pre-primary institutions is positively associated with PISA test scores in most countries. Several indicators of structural quality of pre-primary education are identified that can account for the variation in the estimated coefficients on pre-primary attendance across countries,...

Der Anteil der Schüler, der im Anschluss an die Grundschule auf ein Gymnasium wechselt, fällt für den ländlichen Raum weiterhin deutlich geringer aus als in städtischen Regionen. Basierend auf detaillierten Daten zur Bildungsempfehlung von Grundschülern der vierten Klasse untersuche ich...