Schütz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
. Using cross-country variations in education policies and their interaction with family background at the student level, we …We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family … background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education …