How Does East Asia Achieve Its High Educational Performance?

Ludger Woessmann

No 221, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 from Royal Economic Society

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 South 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. By contrast, 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)
JEL-codes: H52 I20 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-06-04
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