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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Main Authors:	Balcazar, Carlos Felipe, Narayan, Ambar, Tiwari, Sailesh
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMIC OUTCOMES ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENTS ADULT LIFE ADULTS ARITHMETIC ARITHMETIC MEAN AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT BASIC LEARNING BASIC LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES BASIC SERVICES BASIC SKILLS CAREERS CLASSROOMS COGNITIVE TEST COHORT OF STUDENTS COUNTRY LEVEL CURRICULA DATA SET DECOMPOSITION RESULTS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION DIMENSION EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL SERVICES EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES ENROLLMENT ETHICS FORMAL SCHOOLING FUTURE EDUCATION FUTURE RESEARCH GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER EQUALITY GIRLS HIGH CORRELATION HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRATION STATUS INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INDEXES INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY INDEX INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LEARNING LEARNING ACHIEVEMENTS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES LEARNING OUTCOMES LECTURES LET LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF EDUCATION LIFE EXPECTANCY LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH LITERACY LITERACY SKILLS LITERATURE MEASURING INEQUALITY MINIMUM LEVEL MOBILITY NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT EDUCATION PARENTAL EDUCATION PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP POVERTY CHANGES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PROFICIENCY PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SPENDING QUALITY OF EDUCATION READING READING ACHIEVEMENT READING LEVEL READING SKILLS REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES REDUCING INEQUALITY REFERENCE BOOKS SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL CURRICULA SCHOOL EDUCATION SCHOOL ENTERING AGE SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SOCIAL OUTCOMES STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT PERFORMANCE TERTIARY EDUCATION TEST SCORES UNEQUAL ACCESS
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

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/01/23172052/born-silver-spoon-inequality-educational-achievement-across-world
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21149

Born with a Silver Spoon : Inequality in Educational Achievement across the World

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