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| Title: | | Education policy and equality of opportunity  |
| Authors: | | Schütz, Gabriela Ursprung, Heinrich W. Woessmann, Ludger |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 1906 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | equality of opportunity educational production family background student performance tracking pre-school efficiency-equity tradeoff |
| JEL: | | I21 J62 H52 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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