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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? : A Re-Examination Using PISA Data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

beneficial in systems with external exit exams. Students perform better in privately operated schools, but private funding is not …

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Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production

Bishop, John H.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2002

institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to …

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Education policy and equality of opportunity

Schütz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005

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 system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...

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