Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36900 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4926
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average scores on international tests, as are larger enrollment rates for the relevant age group. However, accounting for sample selectivity does not alter existing research findings that tested academic achievement can account for a majority of international differences in economic growth and that institutional features of school systems have important effects on international differences in student achievement.
Subjects: 
Sample selection
international student achievement tests
economic growth
educational production
JEL: 
C83
H4
I20
O40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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