We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition countries, using student-level TIMSS … first group that features high mean test scores and has progressed far in transition, large effects of family background on …

stabilisation and structural reforms - as determinants of growth in transition economies during the first ten years. We ask whether … countries that defied the odds, given by their initial conditions and the "typical" time pattern of transition, reaped benefits …

The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … structural change in the transition economies and simulate the path of adjustment from central planning. We then analyse data …