Institutional Features of Schooling Systems and Educational Inequality: Cross-Country Evidence From PIRLS and PISA*

Ammermueller Andreas
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Ammermueller Andreas: Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS),Berlin, Germany

German Economic Review, 2013, vol. 14, issue 2, 190-213

Abstract: Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and affect the distribution of earnings on the labour market. This paper aims at explaining cross-country differences in educational opportunities by features of schooling systems. The theoretical model predicts that a greater differentiation of the schooling system as indicated by streaming and a large share of private schools decreases educational opportunities while more instruction time increases educational opportunities. The empirical results that are based on a difference-in-differences estimation approach to control for country-specific effects support these hypotheses.

Keywords: Equality of educational opportunity; schooling institutions; PISA; PIRLS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2012.00565.x

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