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

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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