Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/224972 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Education Economics [ISSN:] 1469-5782 [Volume:] 27 [Issue:] 6 [Publisher:] Routledge [Place:] London [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 624-644
Publisher: 
Routledge, London
Abstract: 
The accession of Eastern European countries to the European Union increased family wealth and the returns to schooling. I analyze the change in student achievement due to the EU accession of Eastern Europe building on a panel of six PISA waves covering more than 1 million students in 32 countries. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I find a positive and statistically significant link of EU membership to reading scores by one tenth of a standard deviation. The effect seems robust to including controls from the human capital production function.
Subjects: 
European Union
student achievement
PISA
JEL: 
I28
H52
L15
D82
P5
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Document Type: 
Article
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Published Version

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