How did EU membership of Eastern Europe affect student achievement?

Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers’ Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement

I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade. This favoritism, estimated in the form of individual teacher effects, has long-term consequences: as measured by their national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading accounts for 21 percent of boys...

Consequences of EU expansion for farmland birds in eastern Europe.

Political Economy of the New Europe: Eu Eastern Enlargment

The question of eastern enlargement of the EU has shaped the politics and economics of Central European countries since the collapse of central planning. The process of accession – which has begun with the signing of the European Association Agreements by Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland in 1991 – has gained momentum with the opening of accession negotiations with all Central European ‘assoc...

How Family Background Influences Student Achievement

A key goal of education is to ensure that every student has a chance to excel, both in school and in life. Increasingly, children’s success in school determines their success as adults, determining whether and where they go to college, what professions they enter and how much they can earn. School performance in primary and secondary school does not depend on a student’s mental and physical abi...

How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States

How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve t...