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more advantaged families. Many countries have tried to reduce this inequality through publicly provided preschool. Evidence … on the potential of these programs to reduce inequality in child development is now quite strong. Long-term studies of …
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In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The government reacted to the low average and remarkable disparities registered by the test, and spurred reforms led to a significant improvement in the country fs educational...
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School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … good quality. This study investigates inequality in past attainment, in current school access, and learning or educational …
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socioeconomic inequality by enhancing human capital formation. Yet, within the household how are such gains achieved? We use a field …(s). An unintended consequence is that intrahousehold inequality increases and aggregate gains from the program are overstated …
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levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight … inequality than most of the other OECD countries. …
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This discussion paper describes the extent of social inequalities both within and between the countries of the European Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income. The following chapters analyse the societal...
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(generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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distribution worsened world-wide. We propose a method for decomposing the contribution of a variable to the change in inequality … variable in driving down China's wage inequality between 2010 and 2018. We find that (1) education accounted for over 30% of … total wage inequality in 2010 and 2018; (2) 70% of the overall decline in wage inequality from 2010 to 2018 can be …
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-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has achieved and identifies reducing inequality and poverty as the …
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