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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South Korea and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes improve student performance in East Asia. But other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular homework assignments are related to higher student performance in several of the considered countries.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 745

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
National Government Expenditures and Education
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
education production function
East Asia
family background
class size
school autonomy
Bildungsniveau
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Familiensoziologie
Schulpolitik
Schätzung
Ostasien
Hongkong
Japan
Südkorea
Singapur
Thailand

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Woessmann, Ludger
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2003

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Woessmann, Ludger
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2003

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