کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
354437 1434833 2012 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Inequality of opportunity for educational achievement in Latin America: Evidence from PISA 2006–2009
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Inequality of opportunity for educational achievement in Latin America: Evidence from PISA 2006–2009
چکیده انگلیسی

We evaluate how far away six Latin American countries stand from a normative goal of equality of opportunity for educational achievement in PISA 2006–2009. We work with alternative characterizations of types: gender, school type (public or private), parental education, and their combinations. Following Checchi–Peragine's (2010) non-parametric method, we find that inequality of opportunity for educational achievement in Latin America ranges from less than 1% to up to 25%, depending on the year, the country, the subject and the specification of circumstances. These magnitudes are substantial with respect to what is found in comparator countries. Parental education and school type prove to be important sources of inequality of opportunity, contrary to gender. By means of sensitivity analyses, while most results show small to moderate variation in terms of magnitudes, in ordinal terms (rankings) they remain quite stable. Brazil stands out as the most opportunity-unequal country of the sample.


► We assess inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in six Latin American countries.
► It is included an alternative characterization of the circumstances (simple and composed).
► The type of school seems to be a very important circumstance.
► Unfair inequality exhibits considerable heterogeneity among countries, subjects and years.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics of Education Review - Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2012, Pages 694–708
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