Lasting effects of quality of schooling: Evidence from PISA and PIAAC

The aim was to investigate to what extent quality of compulsory schooling is reflected in adult literacy and numeracy performance levels. Data from five administrations of the PISA survey between 2000 and 2012 for 20 countries were analyzed, along with data from corresponding age cohorts for the same set of countries participating in the cross-sectional PIAAC survey. For each country the PISA data was used to estimate linear achievement trends...