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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Year: 2005

Type: article

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 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.

Source: German Economic Review

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2005.00136.x

Author: Ludger Wößmann

Institutions: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Language: English

Topic: School Choice and Performance

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funders: Harvard University, Royal Society, Royal Economic Society, University of Warwick