Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

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We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition countries, using student-level TIMSS data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance and a much lower impact of resources and the institutional setting. Two different groups of countries emerge. For the first group that features high mean test scores and has progressed far in transition, large effects of family background on student performance and a higher spread of test scores illustrate the similarity to Western European schooling systems, the performance of which it surpasses. Schools of the second group produce instead a denser distribution of educational achievement, characteristic of communist societies.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1154

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty ; Analysis of Education
• Subject: Educational production ; class size ; TIMSS ; transition of institutions ; Bildungsniveau ; Allgemeinbildende Schule ; Familiensoziologie ; Übergangswirtschaft ; Schätzung ; Osteuropa ; Klassengröße ; TIMSS

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ammermüller, Andreas ; Heijke, Hans ; Wößmann, Ludger
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/17826
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