Born with a Silver Spoon : Inequality in Educational Achievement across the World
This paper assesses inequality of opportunity in educational achievement using the Human Opportunity Index methodology on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment. The findings suggest that there are large inequalities in learni...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/01/23172052/born-silver-spoon-inequality-educational-achievement-across-world http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21149 |
| Summary: | This paper assesses inequality of
opportunity in educational achievement using the Human
Opportunity Index methodology on data from the Programme for
International Student Assessment. The findings suggest that
there are large inequalities in learning outcomes as
measured by demonstrated proficiency in Programme for
International Student Assessment test scores in math,
reading, and science. Differences in wealth, parental
education, and area of residence explain a bulk of this
inequality in most of the countries in the sample.
Consistent with what has been documented previously in the
literature, the paper also finds a strong and stable
correlation between inequality of opportunity and public
spending on school education. An exploration of the changes
in inequality of opportunity between the 2009 and 2012
rounds of the Programme for International Student
Assessment, using parametric and nonparametric techniques,
suggests that there has been little progress. |
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