What factors determine student performance in East Asia? New evidence from TIMSS 2007

Masakazu Hojo, Takashi Oshio, 隆士 小塩 and タカシ オシオ

No 494, PIE/CIS Discussion Paper from Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This study investigates what factors determine students’ academic performance in five major economies in East Asia, using the dataset from the 2007 survey of Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). We explicitly consider initial maturity differences, endogeneity of class size, and peer effects in regression analysis. We find that a student’s individual and family background is a key determinant of educational performance, while institutional and resource variables have a more limited effect. Peer effects are significant in general, but ability sorting at the school and/or class levels makes it difficult to interpret them in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Keywords: Educational production function; Initial maturity differences; Peer effects; Class size; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2010-12
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