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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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Equality of opportunity with categorical data
Herrero, Carmen; Villar, Antonio - In: Lecturas de Economía (2014) 81, pp. 9-30
different categories. An empirical illustration on the equality of opportunity in education is provided, using the PISA 2012 …
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Why are migrant students better off in certain types of educational systems or schools than in others?
Dronkers, Jaap; van der Velden, Rolf; Dunne, Allison - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
education systems. We use data from the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) wave. Compared with previous …
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Is Brazilian Education Improving? A Comparative Foray Using Pisa And Saeb Brazil Test Scores
Carnoy, Martin; Khavenson, Tatiana; Costa, Leandro; … - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014
We use a national Brazilian test (SAEB) and an international test (PISA) to measure whether Brazilian students 13 …. We find that Brazilian students have made test score gains during this period on the PISA, but much less so on the SAEB …. Gains on the PISA test for advantaged Brazilian students are smaller than among disadvantaged students. This is also the …
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The effects of individual characteristics on the distribution of college performance
Walter Sosa Escudero:; Giovagnoli, Paula Inés; Porto, … - In: Económica LV (2009) January-December, pp. 99-130
Interactions between observed and unobserved determinants of educational success imply that the former have a heterogeneous effect on performance. To quantify these interactions, a quantile regression model is estimated using a database of students at public universities in Argentina. The...
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Peer effects and school design: An analysis of efficiency and equity
Perini, Lionel - Institut de recherches économiques (IRENE), Faculté … - 2012
This paper estimates educational peer effects at the lower secondary level in Switzerland where different tracking systems coexist. Using a cross-sectional survey based on standardized questionnaires, the structure and magnitude of social interactions among classmates are analyzed. 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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Earnings Inequality
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Inequality has increased considerably in many Western countries over the past decades. When dealing with economic inequality as a research subject the question "inequality of what among whom" arises. Analyses of inequality are typically concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or...
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Expansion of higher education and the equality of opportunity in Colombia
León, Mónica Oviedo - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
The purpose of this work is to assess the effects of the extraordinary expansion of higher education supply in Colombia during the 1990s on the equality of tertiary education opportunity. In this work, the notion of increasing equality of opportunity is associated with a reduction in the...
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