Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

By Andreas Ammermüller, H. Heijke, Ludger Woessmann. Social Science Research Network, 2003

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We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition countries, using student-level TIMSS data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance and a much lower impact of resources and the institutional setting. Two different groups of countries emerge. For the first group that features high mean test scores and has progressed far in transition, large effects of family background on student performance and a higher spread of test scores illustrate the similarity to Western European schooling systems, the performance of which it surpasses. Schools of the second group produce instead a denser distribution of educational achievement, characteristic of communist societies.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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• How Equal are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States (2004, unknown): “Of the few studies on educational production from European countries, exceptions discussing family-background effects include Ammermüller et al. (2003), Björklund et al. (2003), Brunello and Checchi (2003), Feinstein and Symons (1999), Fertig (2003), Häkkinen et al.”