Education policy and equality of opportunity
SUMMARY 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. Using cross‐country variation in education policies and its interaction with family background at the student lev...
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| Volume: | 61 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: |
Schütz, Gabriela
Ursprung, Heinrich W Wößmann, Ludger |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Zielgruppe: |
Academic |
| Place of publication: |
Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008 WILEY Wiley Blackwell Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
| published in: | Kyklos (Basel) Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 279 - 308 |
| Data of publication: | 2008 |
| ISSN: |
0023-5962 1467-6435 |
| EISSN: |
1467-6435 |
| Discipline: | Social Sciences (General) Economics |
| Bibliography: |
Wößmann: University of Munich, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, CESifo and IZA, Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany Schütz: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany woessmann@ifo.de * schuetz@ifo.de Heinrich.Ursprung@uni‐konstanz.de For helpful comments and discussion, we would like to thank Steve Machin, Winfried Pohlmeier, Joachim Winter and the editors, as well as participants at the joint SOLE/EALE World Conference on Labor Economics in San Francisco, the conferences of the International Economic Association in Marrakech and the German Economic Association in Bonn, and at seminars at the universities of Louvain‐La‐Neuve, Dortmund, Zurich and St. Gallen. Ursprung: Department of Economics, University of Konstanz and CESifo, Box D‐138, 78457 Konstanz, Germany |
| Series: |
Kyklos |
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| Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
| Database: | FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2008 Web of Knowledge Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |