motivates this paper. It analyses why Finnish students performed so much better by estimating educational production functions …-Blinder and Juhn-Murphy-Pierce decomposition techniques. The analysis shows that German students have on average a more favorable … scores than Finnish students. The results imply that early streaming in Germany penalizes students in lower school types and …

student background at two important stages in a student?s life as well as to explain cross-country differences in educational … of parents seems to become more important while the impact of social origin decreases. A greater differentiation of the …