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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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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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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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Intergenerational income persistence : measures of intergenerational persistence can be indicative of equality of opportunity, but the relationship is not clear cut

Blanden, Jo - 2015

A strong association between incomes across generations - with children from poor families likely to be poor as adults - is frequently considered an indicator of insufficient equality of opportunity. Studies of such "intergenerational persistence," or lack of intergenerational mobility, are...

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Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity

Kanbur, Ravi; Stiglitz, Joseph E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what matters for normative evaluation. In response to...

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Chapter 4. Equality of Opportunity

Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 217-300). 2015

The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and Dworkin (1981a,b) . Equality of opportunity exists when policies compensate individuals with disadvantageous...

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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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