Privatization in education is often associated to higher academic performance but greater social inequality on it, whereas standardization of school systems is associated to equalization of opportunities, at the cost of lower performance. Until now, however, we have not had evidence about that...

Our study investigates the social conditions in which the Preferential School Subsidy (SEP) reform implemented in Chile in 2008 has influenced students' achievement in 4th grade. SEP reform has been widely evaluated. However, it is less known how the social conditions under which a reform can be...

We investigate to what extent the access to a diversified higher education system is influenced by socioeconomic background, and study the extent for which academic performance and parental educational expectations influence access for different types of higher educational institutions. We use a...

This paper studies the relationship between mathematics proficiency and socioeconomic composition of schools and school factors related to the context in which learning and teaching take place. The analysis employs data from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2011 (TIMSS) for...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo estudia los efectos de pertencer a clases ocupacionales en la vulnerabilidad a la pobreza. La idea de base dele studio es que las trayectorias a la pobreza en 2001 se relacionan con diferencias en la inserción laboral individual en 1996. En vista de esto, se...

The article examines how the labour market value of education has changed in the context of the expansion of higher education. However, one drawback is to understand how it generates differences between high and low skilled labour markets, particularly in contexts of high inequality and...