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Education, inequality and transition [PDF]

open access: possibleEconomics of Transition, 1999
I consider evidence on differences in access to education and in learning achievement within the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The situation inherited from the communist period is first summarized: there were some significant disparities with, for example, family background having a strong association with ...
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Education and Inequality*

2010
The 70 contributors are each well-regarded economists whose research has advanced the topic on which they write, and this book fulfills an undersupplied niche for a text in the economics of education.
Blanden, J, Machin, S
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Inequality and education: education as a cure for disadvantage

2017
This chapter discusses the implications of inequalities in education and the role of education as a cure for disadvantages. We show that countries with the highest regional Gini coefficient are the countries with the lowest average participation rates of four-year-old children, and the Gini coefficient correlates negatively with the percentage of ...
De Witte, Kristof, Tomini, Florian
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Education and Inequality

South Africa is known as one of the countries with the most income inequality globally.1 South Africa’s inequality can be attributed to an intriguing relationship between inequalities in access to education, health, income, employment, and living conditions, where many citizens are living in poverty.
Gilberto Antonelli, Filippo Civilini
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SOCIAL BACKGROUND, EDUCATION, AND INEQUALITY

Economic Inquiry, 2019
The role parents' education plays for the educational achievements of children is a source of unequal opportunities. Through this channel the number of educated affects the options of future cohorts, creating a social multiplier effect making improvements in education self‐reinforcing.
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Education, Inequality and Income Inequality [PDF]

open access: possible, 2001
In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements (in terms of both the average attainments and its concentration).
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EDUCATING IN INEQUALITY

Revista Gênero e Interdisciplinaridade
This study investigates the relationship between socioeconomic vulnerability and access to basic education in Brazil, with a particular emphasis on the regional provision of psychopedagogical services. Grounded in the assumption that education is inherently non-neutral, the article positions psychopedagogy as a central clinical-educational field ...
Ângela Mathylde Soares   +1 more
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Inequality in Education

International Journal of Advanced Research in Education and Society
This paper was written based on a systematic literature review on inequality of education. The main factors found to contribute to the inequality of the education include geographical factor and imbalance in growth and development. The development indicator as well as develop and non-develop areas were discussed in detail in perspective how these could
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