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

By Ludger Wößmann. Social Science Research Network, 2003

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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 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.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336 (2013, unknown): “Finally, an independent sample of estimates of class-size effects illustrating the same points is provided by Wöβmann and West (2006). They use comparable test data from the TIMSS project to estimate class-size effects across 18 countries, mostly in the OECD.”
• Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions (2005, unknown): “et. al, 2005; Ammermueller, 2004, 2005; Woessmann, 2003a ).”
• The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development (2007, unknown): “…most elaborate studies tend to suggest that it 76 Note that private school management does not mean private school funding; the international evidence suggests that both private school management and public school funding are associated with better performance across countries (Wößmann (2005d)).”