Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1154:
Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition
Andreas Ammermüller, Hans Heijke and Ludger Wößmann
Abstract: We estimate educational production functions for seven
Eastern European transition countries, using student-level TIMSS data for
lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student
background on educational performance and a much lower impact of resources
and the institutional setting. Two different groups of countries emerge.
For the first group that features high mean test scores and has progressed
far in transition, large effects of family background on student
performance and a higher spread of test scores illustrate the similarity to
Western European schooling systems, the performance of which it surpasses.
Schools of the second group produce instead a denser distribution of
educational achievement, characteristic of communist societies.
Keywords: Educational production, class size, TIMSS, transition of institutions; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: I21; P36; (follow links to similar papers)
39 pages, March 2003
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