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

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Woessmann, Ludger () (Kiel Institute for World Economics and IZA Bonn)

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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.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 745.

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Keywords: education production function; East Asia; family background; class size; school autonomy;

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O15 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education

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  1. Ammermüller, Andreas, 2005. "Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions," ZEW Discussion Papers 05-44, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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