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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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 745
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
National Government Expenditures and Education
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Subject
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education production function
East Asia
family background
class size
school autonomy
Bildungsniveau
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Familiensoziologie
Schulpolitik
Schätzung
Ostasien
Hongkong
Japan
Südkorea
Singapur
Thailand
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Woessmann, Ludger
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2003
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2003
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