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- What affects PISA scores? : cross-country analysis with focus on PortugalPublication . Pereira, Martim de Sousa Rita Henriques; Evrin, AlperenThis paper wants to find out what factors or school inputs improve students’ performance, measured by the PISA test. These factors have been estimated to check if they affect PISA scores and from this estimated model see how we can improve the Portuguese situation regarding education. The data is organized in panel data and we used the fixed effects model to make our estimation. This method allows to make comparisons between countries despite issues regarding degrees of freedom and a relatively small sample size. Based on our results, we give two main recommendations regarding Portugal’s educational system. The first one is to increase teacher salaries and the second one is to unfreeze teachers careers on the public sector.