Educational institutions, resources, and students' resiliency: an empirical study about OECD countries

Tommaso Agasisti () and Sergio Longobardi ()
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Sergio Longobardi: University of Naples Parthenope

Economics Bulletin, 2014, vol. 34, issue 2, 1055-1067

Abstract: This paper uses the OECD-PISA 2009 data for studying the factors associated with the probability of poor students being resilient, i.e. obtaining good test scores despite their disadvantaged socioeconomic background. The results reveal that not only students' individual characteristics matter, indeed a positive school climate is statistically associated with resiliency; also, educational systems that invest more resources and postpone tracking may help disadvantaged students to overcome their unfavourable background and promote higher equality of opportunities.

Keywords: Resilient students; educational production function; educational equality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05-17
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