Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17826 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1154
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Educational production
class size
TIMSS
transition of institutions
JEL: 
P36
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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