Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA

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Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy affects student achievement negatively in developing and low-performing countries, but positively in developed and high-performing countries. These results are unaffected by a wide variety of robustness and specification tests, providing confidence in the need for nuanced application of reform ideas.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6185

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions ; Education and Economic Development
• Thema: school autonomy ; decentralization ; developing countries ; educational production ; international student achievement tests ; panel estimation ; Bildungsreform ; Schule ; Selbstverwaltung ; Bildungsniveau ; Bildungsökonomik ; Entwicklungsländer ; Industriestaaten ; Welt

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hanushek, Eric A. ; Link, Susanne ; Wößmann, Ludger
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58689
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201103562
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ