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How are inequality of opportunity and mean student performance related? A quantile regression approach using PISA data

Hermann, Z.; Horn, D. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 11 (2011) 3

distribution within each country in PISA 2000-2009. In the second step, we analyse the association between these estimates and the …

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The public–private test score gap in Brazil

Oliveira, Pedro Rodrigues de; Belluzzo, Walter; … - In: Economics of Education Review 35 (2013) C, pp. 120-133

This paper presents a counterfactual decomposition of the public–private gap on test scores obtained by 8th graders in Brazil. Quantile regression methods are used to obtain a characterization of the conditional distribution of scores, which is then used to build counterfactuals. The results...

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Peer effects and measurement error: The impact of sampling variation in school survey data (evidence from PISA)

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Silva, Pedro N. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1136-1142

Student Assessment (PISA) linked to administrative microdata recording information for each PISA sample member's entire year … just the PISA sample. We also use a Monte Carlo experiment to show how the extent of the attenuation bias rises as peer … peers of the size implied by the PISA survey design. …

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Improving educational resilience in the OECD countries : two convergent paths

Vicente, Iván; Pastor, José Manuel; Soler Guillén, Ángel - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 43 (2021) 6, pp. 1149-1166

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Educación y desarrollo: PISA 2009 y el sistema educativo español

Villar Notario, Villar Notario Antonio - Fundación BBVA

El Programa PISA para la Evaluación Internacional de los Alumnos consiste en una valoración de los conocimientos … el conocimiento sobre los resultados educativos a partir de los datos del último informe PISA, correspondiente al año …

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Immigrants in the classroom and effects on native children : having immigrant children in the classroom may sometimes, but not always, harm educational outcomes of native children

Jensen, Peter - 2015

Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence...

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How Useful is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct?

Kanbur, Ravi; Wagstaff, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. More recently, the concepts and measures have begun to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors like health and education. Indeed, it is argued that one advantage of focusing on equality of opportunity is that...

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Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements

Brown, Andrew G.; Stern, Robert M. - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 1 (2007) 1, pp. 1-22

In this article, we first describe the characteristics of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that are the basis of the framework of the multilateral trading system. We then provide an overview of concepts of fairness in trade agreements. Thereafter, we offer a critique of the efficiency...

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A comparison of optimal tax policies when compensation or responsibility matter

Jacquet, Laurence; Van de Gaer, Dirk - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 11, pp. 1248-1262

This paper examines optimal redistribution in a model with high- and low-skilled individuals with heterogeneous tastes for labor. We compare the extent to which optimal policies based on different normative criteria obey the principles of compensation (for differential skills) and responsibility...

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Equality of capabilities: terminological innovation or a new approach to equal opportunity?

Granaglia, Elena - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2007) 4

The principle of equality of capabilities developed by Sen and Nussbaum aims at providing a new conception of equality of opportunity, alternative to the major criteria so far formulated, and in the first place to the principle deriving from equality of resources. Recently, however, the...

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