Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 983:
Schooling Resources, Educational Institutions, and Student Performance: The International Evidence
Ludger Wößmann
Abstract: The paper suggests that international differences in
educational institutions explain the large international differences in
student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric
student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from
39 countries reveals that positive effects on student performance stem from
centralized examinations and control mechanisms, school autonomy in
personnel and process decisions, competition from private educational
institutions, scrutiny of achievement, and teacher influence on teaching
methods. A large influence of teacher unions on curriculum scope has
negative effects on student performance. The findings imply that
international differences in student performance are not caused by
differences in schooling resources but are mainly due to differences in
educational institutions.
Keywords: education production function, institutions, incentives; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: I2; (follow links to similar papers)
87 pages, May 2000
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