A cross-country panel approach to exploring the determinants of educational equity through PISA data

作者：Agasisti Tommaso; Longobardi Sergio^*; Regoli Andrea

来源：Quality and Quantity, 2017, 51(3): 1243-1260.

DOI：10.1007/s11135-016-0328-z

• School equity
• Resilient students
• FE models

The main aim of the paper is to analyse the effect of country and school factors on a new measure of educational equity defined as the country proportion of resilient students, i.e. those who, despite their disadvantaged socioeconomic background, are able to obtain good educational results. We construct a cross country panel dataset by merging the five editions of OECD PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). The panel analysis allows to exploit country and time level variation in the proportion of resilient students controlling for systematic and institutional differences. Our findings suggest that educational funding can help disadvantaged students to obtain the opportunities that they are otherwise lacking. In addition, this effect seems to be heterogeneous, and particularly driven by those countries whose economic development (in terms of per capita GDP) is lower.

• 出版日期2017-5