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The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522507
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A global count of the extreme poor in 2012 : data issues, methodology and initial results
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Chen, Shaohua; Dabalen, Andrew; … - 2015
Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the global count, we find 12.7 percent of the world's population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375987
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Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lustig, Nora; Teles, Daniel - 2015
(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376319
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Inequality of opportunity, income inequality and economic mobility : some international comparisons
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2013
Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696905
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Inequality of opportunity and economic growth : a cross-country analysis
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lakner, Christoph; Ana Lugo, … - 2014
Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...
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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics
Artuc, Erhan - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842639
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Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index
Kraay, Aart - 2018
This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910533
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Weak Instruments in Growth Regressions : Implications for Recent Cross-Country Evidence on Inequality and Growth
Kraay, Aart - 2017
This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four studies report strongly significant negative effects, using the popular system generalized method of moments estimator that is frequently used in cross-country growth empirics. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970632
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970655
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Predicting World Bank Project Outcome Ratings
Geli, Patricia - 2017
A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their … ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972899