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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
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1284
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Wirtschaft
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Analysis of Education
National Government Expenditures and Education
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equality of opportunity
student performance
family background
TIMSS
equity-efficiency tradeoff
intergenerational mobility
Bildungschancen
Bildungsniveau
Familiensoziologie
Vergleich
Generationenbeziehungen
Theorie
Westeuropa
Vereinigte Staaten
TIMSS
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Woessmann, Ludger
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2004
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2004
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