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 …

This study estimates the individual and combined effects of selected family, student and
school characteristics on the academic achievement of poor, urban primary-school students …

Despite large gains in girls' education over the last 25 years, today there are at least 80
countries where momentum has stalled. Elizabeth King and Rebecca Winthrop review in …

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience for Youth (1997
cohort) are used to examine the urban school achievement gap. Specifically, we use the …

We employ the method of identification through heteroskedasticity to estimate an
educational production function using data on Russian secondary school students from …

East Asia's phenomenal economic rise has been attributed to its early investment in human
capital. While countries such as South Korea and Singapore dominate in international …

Although access to quality education in rural China has expanded dramatically over the past
3 decades, significant disparities persist between ethnic minorities and the Han majority …

This study employed the multiple regression analysis to examine the effects of family
characteristics, student characteristics, parental involvement, and school characteristics with …

In recent years, community school programs have been expanded in a number of
developing countries. Part of the justification for empowering parents and local communities …

This article offers a historical analysis of the achievement level of mathematics learning in
Mexican ninth graders. The results of the PISA, ENLACE and PLANEA tests are analyzed …