2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia

Artjoms Ivlevs () and Roswitha M. King

Economics of Education Review, 2014, vol. 38, issue C, 151-166

Abstract: One quarter of all schoolchildren in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a composite of 60% Latvian and 40% minority. This paper studies the effects of this ‘60/40’ reform on the academic performance of pupils in minority schools. Using data on 2002–2011 centralised exam results for the universe of Latvia's secondary schools, we find that there has been a significant deterioration in the exam performance of minority schools relative to that of majority schools after the reform year 2004. The negative effects were most pronounced in the early years following the reform.

Keywords: Costs; Educational economics; School choice; Bilingual education; Latvia; Minorities; Policy evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J15 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.08.010

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