Artikel

How did EU membership of Eastern Europe affect student achievement?

The accession of Eastern European countries to the European Union increased family wealth and the returns to schooling. I analyze the change in student achievement due to the EU accession of Eastern Europe building on a panel of six PISA waves covering more than 1 million students in 32 countries. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I find a positive and statistically significant link of EU membership to reading scores by one tenth of a standard deviation. The effect seems robust to including controls from the human capital production function.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Education Economics ; ISSN: 1469-5782 ; Volume: 27 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 6 ; Pages: 624-644 ; London: Routledge

Classification
Wirtschaft
Education: Government Policy
National Government Expenditures and Education
Information and Product Quality; Standardization and Compatibility
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Subject
European Union
student achievement
PISA

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bergbauer, Annika B.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Routledge
(where)
London
(when)
2019

DOI
doi:10.1080/09645292.2019.1673702
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  • Bergbauer, Annika B.
  • Routledge

Time of origin

  • 2019

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