TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeman,Richard B.
AU  - Machin,Stephen
AU  - Viarengo,Martina
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies across Countries and of Schools within Countries
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 2010; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This study examines the variation in educational outcomes across and within countries using the TIMSS mathematics tests. It documents the wide cross-country variation in the level and dispersion of test scores. Countries with the highest test scores are those with the least inequality in scores, which suggests a "virtuous" equity-efficiency trade-off in improving educational outcomes. Analyzing the association of gender, immigrant status, and family background factors with scores, we find large cross-country differences in the relation between those factors and scores
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w16293
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w16293
ER  -