Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1051:
New Evidence on the Missing Resource-Performance Link in Education
Ludger Wößmann
Abstract: New evidence confirms the conclusion of former surveys
that the link between school resources and student performance is generally
missing in educational production. While the conventional within-country
cross-section evidence remains controversial, recent contributions which
control for potential resource endogeneity suggest that returns to resource
usage in education are decreasing. Resources may render positive effects at
very low endowment levels prevailing in many developing countries, but
their effect is weak to non-existent in advanced countries. The missing
resource-performance link in education also shows up in international
cross-section evidence and in within-country time-series evidence.
Keywords: education production functions, determinants of student performance, resource effects; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: I2; (follow links to similar papers)
40 pages, June 2001
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