Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions

Andreas Ammermüller
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No 4, Research Memoranda from Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market

Abstract: Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background as well as to explain cross-country differences in educational opportunities by decisive features of educational systems. For the latter, a two-step approach is combined with a difference-in-differences estimation in order to control for country-specific effects. The results show that educational opportunities decrease with student age in most countries. However, the attitude of parents seems to become more important while social origin becomes less important. Institutions are linked to educational opportunities. It can be shown that the institutional features of the schooling system as indicated by streaming and private schools, instruction time and school autonomy are related to different dimensions of educational opportunities.

Keywords: education, training and the labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005
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