An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of
educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The …

We review the comparative literature on the impact of national-level educational institutions
on inequality in student achievement. We focus on two types of institutions that characterize …

Innovation and environmental sustainability are key elements in countries' development and
essential to ensure their continuing competitiveness in an increasingly globalised market …

International large-scale assessments, such as PISA, provide structured and static data.
However, due to its extensive databases, several researchers place it as a reference in Big …

Social and social-spatial inequality are on the rise in the Global North. This has resulted in
increasing segmentation between population groups with different social and ethnic …

Tracked educational systems are associated with greater social inequality in children's
educational achievement. Until now, research has assumed that the impact of tracking on …

This paper studies the role of family background in explaining differences in the willingness
to compete in a cognitive task. By combining data from a lab experiment conducted with a …

In the last three decennia, many governments have introduced market mechanisms in
education. They have done so by enhancing parental choice and encouraging school …

From an international review of 109 school effectiveness research studies, only 6 could be
seen as theory driven. As the border between substantive conceptual models of educational …

Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background
becoming less important for people's occupational class or status? How important is …