Ludger Woessmann|Thomas Fuchs
Families, schools and primary-school learning: evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective
Ifo Institute for Economic Research
paper presents evidence associations family background school characteristics student performance primary school argentina colombia several comparison countriesas general pattern educational performance strongly related family background weakly institutional school features hardly schools resource endowmentsin international perspective familybackground effects relatively large argentina relatively small colombiaa specific argentine feature lack performance differences rural urban areasa specific colombian feature lack significant betweengender performance differencesnonnative students students speaking spanish home perform particularly weak countriesin argentina students perform better schools centralized curriculum abilitybased class formation