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in the international harmonized PISA tests in math, science and reading; whereas it produces some of the most unequal … distributions of learning between schools and students. Combining evidence from the PISA 2006 data set at the student and school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008829998
in the international harmonized PISA tests in math, science and reading; whereas it produces some of the most unequal … distributions of learning between schools and students. Combining evidence from the PISA 2006 data set at the student and school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836140
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312120
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288175
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765754
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046825
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700868
Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal that concerns politicians and the larger public alike. In spite of its wide acceptance, current estimation approaches in the literature suffer from severe data restrictions that lead to biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019143
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887379
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931566