Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

By Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich W. Ursprung, Ludger Woessmann. Social Science Research Network, 2008

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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 model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycle are beneficial for equality, while pre-school enrollment is detrimental at low levels of enrollment and beneficial at higher levels. Using cross-country variations in education policies and their interaction with family background at the student level, we provide empirical evidence supportive of these predictions.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Gendered study choice: a literature review. A review of theory and research into the unequal representation of male and female students in mathematics, science, and technology (2013, background): “Differences in education systems clearly matter in the (re)production of inequality in education (Buccheri, Gürber, & Brühwiler, 2011; OECD, 2005, 2007, 2010; Schütz et al., 2008; Schütz & Wöβmann, 2005).”
The Matthew effect in childcare use: a matter of policies or preferences? (2018, background): “The quality of parental care differs greatly between socioeconomic groups, and school systems in many European countries are known to reproduce or even reinforce existing inequalities (Schütz et al. 2008).”
Educational institutions and the integration of migrants (2011, methodology): “As mentioned above, since the dependent variable is constructed, following Silber and Weber (1999) and Card and Krueger (1992), observations are weighted by the inverse of the disturbance to the dependent variable.”