Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36812
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4824
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of 'class size' and time-in-term, other school factors and student background factors. Class size and time-in-term are both important school choice variables and we examine how provincial achievement differences would change if the Alberta distribution of class size and time-in-term prevailed in the other provinces. Results differ by province, and for provinces where mean achievement gaps would be lower, not all students would benefit.
Subjects: 
Educational economics
human capital
input-output analysis
JEL: 
I22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.