Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka
Disparities in school outcomes are an important source of income inequality, especially in rapidly developing and developed economies where the returns to schooling have been increasing. It is therefore important to document and understand the sour...
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okr-10986-179742021-04-23T14:03:35Z Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka World Bank ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS AGE COHORT AVERAGE SCHOOL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE SCHOOLING AVERAGE SCHOOLING YEARS CHILD MORTALITY COLLEGE EDUCATION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GIRLS ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATED PARENTS EDUCATION FOR ALL EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL REFORM EQUITABLE ACCESS ETHNIC CONFLICT FEMALE CHILDREN FEMALE SCHOOLING GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER EQUALITY HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HOMEWORK HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INEQUALITY INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION LEARNING LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LIVING STANDARDS LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION MALNUTRITION PAPERS PATERNAL EDUCATION PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION PRIMARY SCHOOLING PRIVATE TUITION PUBLIC SCHOOLS RETURNS TO EDUCATION RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING TEXTBOOKS TUITION UNIVERSAL PRIMARY ENROLLMENT WORLD REGIONS Disparities in school outcomes are an important source of income inequality, especially in rapidly developing and developed economies where the returns to schooling have been increasing. It is therefore important to document and understand the sources of schooling inequality. The intergenerational transmission of schooling is an important reason for the persistence of schooling disparities over time. More-educated parents are much more likely than less-educated parents to invest in the schooling of their children owing to different preferences, better financial circumstances, and their own greater human capital. In this paper, authors explore whether the association between parental and child schooling has strengthened or weakened over time. Authors find strong, but declining, effects of parental schooling on (male and female) child schooling over time, even after controlling for other variables. The improved distribution of schooling will have likely played an important role in improving the distribution of income in the country had there not been other compensating changes. 2014-04-22T18:49:26Z 2014-04-22T18:49:26Z 2011-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/08/15556429/evolving-inequality-school-attainment-sri-lanka http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17974 English en_US South Asia human development sector;report no. 44 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia Sri Lanka |
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ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS AGE COHORT AVERAGE SCHOOL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE SCHOOLING AVERAGE SCHOOLING YEARS CHILD MORTALITY COLLEGE EDUCATION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GIRLS ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATED PARENTS EDUCATION FOR ALL EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL REFORM EQUITABLE ACCESS ETHNIC CONFLICT FEMALE CHILDREN FEMALE SCHOOLING GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER EQUALITY HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HOMEWORK HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INEQUALITY INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION LEARNING LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LIVING STANDARDS LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION MALNUTRITION PAPERS PATERNAL EDUCATION PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION PRIMARY SCHOOLING PRIVATE TUITION PUBLIC SCHOOLS RETURNS TO EDUCATION RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING TEXTBOOKS TUITION UNIVERSAL PRIMARY ENROLLMENT WORLD REGIONS |
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ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS AGE COHORT AVERAGE SCHOOL ATTAINMENT AVERAGE SCHOOLING AVERAGE SCHOOLING YEARS CHILD MORTALITY COLLEGE EDUCATION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GIRLS ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATED PARENTS EDUCATION FOR ALL EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL REFORM EQUITABLE ACCESS ETHNIC CONFLICT FEMALE CHILDREN FEMALE SCHOOLING GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER EQUALITY HIGH SCHOOL HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HOMEWORK HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INEQUALITY INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION LEARNING LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LIVING STANDARDS LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION MALNUTRITION PAPERS PATERNAL EDUCATION PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION PRIMARY SCHOOLING PRIVATE TUITION PUBLIC SCHOOLS RETURNS TO EDUCATION RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING TEXTBOOKS TUITION UNIVERSAL PRIMARY ENROLLMENT WORLD REGIONS World Bank Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka |
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Disparities in school outcomes are an
important source of income inequality, especially in rapidly
developing and developed economies where the returns to
schooling have been increasing. It is therefore important to
document and understand the sources of schooling inequality.
The intergenerational transmission of schooling is an
important reason for the persistence of schooling
disparities over time. More-educated parents are much more
likely than less-educated parents to invest in the schooling
of their children owing to different preferences, better
financial circumstances, and their own greater human
capital. In this paper, authors explore whether the
association between parental and child schooling has
strengthened or weakened over time. Authors find strong, but
declining, effects of parental schooling on (male and
female) child schooling over time, even after controlling
for other variables. The improved distribution of schooling
will have likely played an important role in improving the
distribution of income in the country had there not been
other compensating changes. |
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| title |
Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka |
| title_short |
Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka |
| title_full |
Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka |
| title_fullStr |
Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka |
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Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka |
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evolving inequality of school attainment in sri lanka |
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Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/08/15556429/evolving-inequality-school-attainment-sri-lanka http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17974 |
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