Educational Inequality in the EU

Raphaela Schlicht, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen and Markus Freitag
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Raphaela Schlicht: University of Konstanz, Germany, raphaela.schlicht@uni-konstanz.de
Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen: University of Konstanz, Germany, isabelle.stadelmann-steffen@uni-konstanz.de
Markus Freitag: University of Konstanz, Germany, markus.freitag@uni-konstanz.de

European Union Politics, 2010, vol. 11, issue 1, 29-59

Abstract: Since the publication of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), scholarly interest in analysing the effectiveness and performance of education policy has risen again. The present article follows this path and presents the first empirical evaluation of the influence of national education policies on educational inequality in the European Union member states. We examine whether the availability of preschool education, an all-day school tradition, tracking during secondary education, a large private school sector, average class size and education expenditures moderate the relationship between individual social background and educational success. As a main finding, our multi-level analyses show that education policy affects educational inequality very differently, an outcome that is most visible when comparing West European and post-communist countries.

Keywords: education; European Union; inequality; multi-level analysis; new institutionalism; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/1465116509346387

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