Fundamental determinants of school efficiency and equity: german states as a microcosm for OECD countries

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Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany: Higher mean student performance is associated with central exams, private school operation, and socio-economic background, but not with spending, while higher equality of opportunity is associated with reduced tracking. In a model that pools German states with OECD countries, these fundamental determinants do not differ significantly between the two samples.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1981

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education: Government Policy ; Public Policy ; Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: Bildungsniveau ; Bildungschancen ; Bildungspolitik ; Institutionalismus ; Teilstaat ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Woessmann, Ludger
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26026
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