Arbeitspapier
How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most equitable performance for students from different family backgrounds, and Britain and Germany the least. Equality of opportunities is unrelated to countries' mean performance. Quantile regressions show little variation in family-background effects across the ability distribution in most countries.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1162
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Education
Analysis of Education
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- Thema
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education
equality of opportunity
student performance
family background
TIMSS
equity-efficiency tradeoff
intergenerational mobility
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Woessmann, Ludger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2004
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