Inequality of opportunity in educational achievements: Cross-country and intertemporal comparisons

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This paper evaluates fairness in educational achievements through the ordered pair (WEEOp, IEOp) whose components provide: (i) A measure of social welfare which accounts for the achievement of less-advantaged pupils and (ii) a synthetic index of inequality in educational opportunities. Students' test scores from the Programme for International Students Assessment PISA, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012 are exploited to perform a cross-country and intertemporal comparison of fairness in education. The cross-country comparison shows that none of the countries outperform in both components of fairness, whereas the intertemporal comparison shows that few countries have moved towards a greater degree of equality of opportunity all the while improving the performance of the less-advantaged students.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-928-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2015/043

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Inequality ; General Welfare; Well-Being
• Subject: inequality of opportunity ; educational achievements ; Programme for International Students Assessment survey

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Luongo, Patrizia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/928-2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126308
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET