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Attendance of pre-primary institutions is positively associated with PISA test scores inmost countries. Several indicators of structural quality of pre-primary education areidentified that can account for the variation in the estimated coefficients on pre-primaryattendance across countries,...
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There exists substantial variation across countries as to whether and how students are grouped in classes according to ability. Economic analyses stress that there is joint production of human capital in schools, where output increases with mean ability in the class. Ability tracking may...
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This study was prepared by Gabriela Schütz while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2008 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The topic of this study is an econometric analysis...
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We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...
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In allen nationalen und internationalen Schülerleistungstests erweist sich nahezu ausnahmslos der familiäre Hintergrund der Schülerinnen und Schüler als der bei weitem stärkste Einflussfaktor auf ihre erzielten Leistungen. Daher befasst sich der vorliegende vierte und letzte Beitrag zum...
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Mikroökonometrische Schätzungen anhand internationaler Schülerleistungstests zeigen,dass das Ausmaß, in dem Schülerleistungen mit dem familiären Hintergrund variieren,international sehr unterschiedlich ist. So weisen etwa Frankreich und Kanada wesentlichausgeglichenere Bildungschancen für...
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Mikroökonometrische Schätzungen anhand internationaler Schülerleistungstests zeigen, dass das Ausmaß, in dem Schülerleistungen mit dem familiären Hintergrund variieren, international sehr unterschiedlich ist. So weisen etwa Frankreich und Kanada wesentlich ausgeglichenere Bildungschancen...
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We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003302847
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