Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Ludger Woessmann

No 745, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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. But other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular homework assignments are related to higher student performance in several of the considered countries.

Keywords: school autonomy; class size; education production function; East Asia; family background (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I20 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2003-03
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Published - published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (3), 331-353

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