TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Woessmann, Ludger
        TI  - Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
        PY  - 2003/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 745
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp745
        AB  - East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational
performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family
background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East
Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South
Korea and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes.
There is no evidence that smaller classes improve student performance in East Asia. But
other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular homework
assignments are related to higher student performance in several of the considered
countries.
        KW  - school autonomy
KW  - class size
KW  - education production function
KW  - East Asia
KW  - family background
        ER  -