Inequality of Opportunity for Educational Achievement in Latin America: Evidence from PISA 2006-2009

Autor/inn/en	Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Waltenberg, Fabio D.
Titel	Inequality of Opportunity for Educational Achievement in Latin America: Evidence from PISA 2006-2009
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 31 (2012) 5, S.694-708 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.05.002
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Academic Achievement; Gender Differences; Public Schools; Private Schools; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Nonparametric Statistics; Equal Education; Brazil; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schulleistung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Brasilien
Abstract	We evaluate how far away six Latin American countries stand from a normative goal of equality of opportunity for educational achievement in PISA 2006-2009. We work with alternative characterizations of types: gender, school type (public or private), parental education, and their combinations. Following Checchi-Peragine's (2010) non-parametric method, we find that inequality of opportunity for educational achievement in Latin America ranges from less than 1% to up to 25%, depending on the year, the country, the subject and the specification of circumstances. These magnitudes are substantial with respect to what is found in comparator countries. Parental education and school type prove to be important sources of inequality of opportunity, contrary to gender. By means of sensitivity analyses, while most results show small to moderate variation in terms of magnitudes, in ordinal terms (rankings) they remain quite stable. Brazil stands out as the most opportunity-unequal country of the sample. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10