TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schütz, Gabriela
AU  - Ursprung, Heinrich W.
AU  - Woessmann, Ludger
        TI  - Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
        PY  - 2005/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1906
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1906
        AB  - We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycle are beneficial for equality, while pre-school enrollment is detrimental at low levels of enrollment and beneficial at higher levels. Using cross-country variations in education policies and their interaction with family background at the student level, we provide empirical evidence supportive of these predictions.
        KW  - tracking
KW  - efficiency-equity tradeoff
KW  - student performance
KW  - family background
KW  - educational production
KW  - equality of opportunity
KW  - pre-school
        ER  -