Characteristics of teaching institutions and students’ performance: new empirical evidence from OECD data

Robin Stephane and Sprietsma Maresa
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Robin Stephane: CRESGE, Lille
Sprietsma Maresa: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

No 2003028, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: A whole branch of the economic literature suggests that institutional differences between and inside educational systems may have a larger influence on students performance than the amount of resources devoted to schooling. In this paper, we use the PISA 2000 international OECD data to evaluate the impacts of organizational and institutional factors on students performance. We estimate an education production function with country fixed-effect and school random-effect. We find that, alongside individual characteristics, school autonomy in decisions regarding the recruitment of new personnel as well as pedagogical training strongly affect students performance. On the contrary, measures of school resources and standardised evaluation of students have no consistent effect.

Keywords: human capital formation; individual performance; school resources; school autonomy; institutional arrangements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I2 I22 I28 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2003-12-01
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