Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Wößmann Ludger
Additional contact information
Wößmann Ludger: Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich and CESifo,München, Germany
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Ludger Woessmann

German Economic Review, 2005, vol. 6, issue 3, 331-353

Abstract: East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in Korea and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes improve student performance in East Asia. But other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular homework assignments are related to higher student performance in several of the considered countries.

Keywords: Education production function; East Asia; family background; class size; school autonomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0475.2005.00136.x (text/html)
For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.

Related works:
Journal Article: Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance (2005)
Working Paper: Educational production in East Asia: The impact of family background and schooling policies on student performance (2005)
Working Paper: Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance (2003)
Working Paper: Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance (2003)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:germec:v:6:y:2005:i:3:p:331-353

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/ger/html

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2005.00136.x

Access Statistics for this article

German Economic Review is currently edited by Peter Egger, Almut Balleer, Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma, Mario Larch, Aderonke Osikominu and Georg Wamser

More articles in German Economic Review from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().