 PISA: What makes the difference?Andreas Ammermueller ()
A chapter in The Economics of Education and Training, 2008, pp 241-265 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The large difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany motivates this paper. It analyses why Finnish students showed a significantly higher performance by estimating educational production functions for both countries, using a unique micro-level dataset with imputed data and added school type information. The difference in reading proficiency scores is assigned to different effects, using Oaxaca-Blinder and Juhn-Murphy-Pierce decomposition methods. The analysis shows that German students and schools have on average more favorable characteristics except for the lowest deciles, but experience much lower returns to these characteristics in terms of test scores than Finnish students. The role of school types remains ambiguous. Overall, the observable characteristics explain more of the variation in test scores in Germany than in Finland. Keywords: Educational production; PISA; Student performance; Decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:stecpp:978-3-7908-2022-5_11 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2022-5_11 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Studies in Empirical Economics from Springer |
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