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Education policy and equality of opportunity

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dc.creator Woessmann, Ludger
dc.creator Ursprung, Heinrich W.
dc.creator Schuetz, Gabriela
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:02:16Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:02:16Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18982
dc.identifier ppn:500539421
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18982
dc.description 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 model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycle are beneficial for equality, while pre-school enrollment is detrimental at low levels of enrollment and beneficial at higher levels. Using cross-country variations in education policies and their interaction with family background at the student level, we provide empirical evidence supportive of these predictions.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1518
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject I21
dc.subject H52
dc.subject J62
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject equality of opportunity
dc.subject educational production
dc.subject family background
dc.subject student performance
dc.subject tracking
dc.subject pre-school
dc.subject efficiency-equity tradeoff
dc.subject Bildungschancen
dc.subject Bildungsniveau
dc.subject Familiensoziologie
dc.subject Bildungspolitik
dc.subject Bildungsökonomik
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Welt
dc.title Education policy and equality of opportunity
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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