Test Scores and Economic Growth: Update and Extension

Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren and Henrik Jordahl

No 1408, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Education; Economic growth; PISA; TIMSS; Top-performing students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 O15 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2021-10-01
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Journal Article: Test scores and economic growth: update and extension (2024)
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