Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1152:
Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
Ludger Wößmann
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Education production function, East Asia, family background, class size, school autonomy; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: O15; I20; H52; (follow links to similar papers)
34 pages, March 2003
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