Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

Publication Source

The Open Economics Journal

Abstract

Per-pupil expenditures on education in the United States have grown immensely in recent decades, yet student achievement has been stagnant. An abundance of research has sought to solve this enigma, much of it centered on the incentive structure facing administrators. Some recent papers use TIMSS data to analyze the relationship between institutional arrangements—that typically do not vary within a single country—and student achievement. Similarly, we utilize TIMSS 1999 to determine if there is an indirect relationship between institutional arrangements and student achievement, via a relationship with school efficiency. Our results show that the specified link between institutional arrangements and student achievement (direct or indirect) is important in certain instances and confirms evidence found in previous research that certain arrangements are beneficial or detrimental to student achievement, regardless of the specification chosen.

Inclusive pages

1-14

ISBN/ISSN

1874-9194

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

Published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, archiving, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the work is properly cited.

Permission documentation is on file.

Publisher

Bentham Science Publishers

Place of Publication

Oak Park, IL

Volume

5

Peer Reviewed

yes

Issue

1

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