Showing 1 - 7 of 7
In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils in six member countries of the OECD, whether the fact of having many siblings affects the individual educational outcome. The hypothesis that we test is whether parents’ resources matter for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703705
Literature examining immigrants’ educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822206
Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the interpretation of measured levels of inequality, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763825
by the Italian Ministry of Education. We consider three different groups of educational inputs: individual …, cultural resources and aspirations. In addition to the standard gradient represented by parental education and occupation, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700899
International surveys of educational achievement are typically analysed in isolation from each other with no indication as to whether new results confirm or contradict those from earlier surveys. The paper pulls together results from four surveys to compare average levels of achievement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700954
Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender equality in educational achievement. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703031
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566721