Title	Publication Date	Language	Citations
Effect of relative age in the first grade of primary school on long‐term scholastic results: international comparative evidence using PISA 2003	2008/07/18	English	54
Measuring educational efficiency at student level with parametric stochastic distance functions: an application to Spanish PISA results	2011/02/01	English	54
Improving Student Performance in Public Primary Schools in Developing Countries: Evidence from Indonesia	2006/12/01	English	53
Mothers, Maids and Tutors: An Empirical Evaluation of their Effect on Children's Academic Grades in Singapore	2005/09/01	English	53
Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices: a non‐technical guide	2011/05/01	English	53
A Three-way Error Components Analysis of Educational Productivity	1999/12/01	English	52
The Relative Effect of Family Characteristics and Financial Situation on Educational Achievement	2002/08/01	English	52
Returns to Education in Bangladesh	2006/12/01	English	50
Rates of Return to Educational Qualifications in the Transitional Economies	1999/04/01	English	50
University Efficiency: A Comparison and Consolidation of Results from Stochastic and Non‐stochastic Methods	2006/03/01	English	50
Performances and spending efficiency in higher education: a European comparison through non‐parametric approaches	2011/05/01	English	49
What Determines Alumni Generosity? Evidence for the UK	2000/04/01	English	48
Setting Achievement Targets for School Children	1999/08/01	English	47
Performance in European higher education: A non‐parametric production frontier approach	2005/06/01	English	46
Assessing the Cost Efficiency of Italian Universities	2007/12/01	English	44
Determinants of demand for private supplementary tutoring in China: findings from a national survey	2016/05/06	English	44
The more, the better? The impact of instructional time on student performance	2017/04/13	English	44
Time to degree: students' abilities, university characteristics or something else? Evidence from Italy	2011/07/01	English	42
Research output of Australian universities	2004/12/01	English	42
State Appropriation and Higher Education Tuition: What is the relationship?	2000/04/01	English	42
Educational mismatch and the careers of scientists	2011/07/01	English	40
School Outcomes: Sharing the Responsibility Between Pupil and School1	2002/08/01	English	40
Abolishing School Fees in Malawi: The Impact on Education Access and Equity1	2007/09/01	English	39
The economic case for education	2015/07/17	English	39
Revisiting fixed- and random-effects models: some considerations for policy-relevant education research	2013/11/12	English	39
The efficiency of Italian secondary schools and the potential role of competition: a data envelopment analysis using OECD-PISA2006 data	2013/12/01	English	38
Schooling and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Bangladesh	2003/08/01	English	38
Inside the house of learning: the relative performance of public and private schools in Orissa	2009/08/19	English	38
Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of the Social Benefits of Lifelong Learnings	1998/12/01	English	37
Demographic Change and Public Education Spending: A Conflict between Young and Old?	2007/09/01	English	37