Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children
This paper expands the analysis of equal opportunities by connecting traditional benefit incidence analysis of public spending with the human opportunity index, a distribution sensitive measure of access to public services. It also develops ex-ante micro-simulations to determine the cost of equalizi...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | en_US |
| Published: |
Taylor and Francis
2013
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16191 |
| id |
okr-10986-16191 |
|---|---|
| recordtype |
oai_dc |
| spelling |
okr-10986-161912021-04-23T14:03:27Z Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children Cuesta, José Abras, Ana equality of opportunity education redistribution simulations This paper expands the analysis of equal opportunities by connecting traditional benefit incidence analysis of public spending with the human opportunity index, a distribution sensitive measure of access to public services. It also develops ex-ante micro-simulations to determine the cost of equalizing educational opportunities. This technique is applied to Liberia, a country devastated by civil war with serious educational enrollment gaps and policies highly dependent on international aid. Results from simulated increases in teachers’ salaries, elimination of fee and non-fee costs and targeted public educational spending on rural schools all point to very modest redistributive effects but distinctive patterns of winners and losers among Liberian children. 2013-10-17T21:32:06Z 2013-10-17T21:32:06Z 2013-09-12 Journal Article Journal of Economic Policy Reform 1748-7870 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16191 en_US http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Liberia |
| repository_type |
Digital Repository |
| institution_category |
Foreign Institution |
| institution |
Digital Repositories |
| building |
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository |
| collection |
World Bank |
| language |
en_US |
| topic |
equality of opportunity education redistribution simulations |
| spellingShingle |
equality of opportunity education redistribution simulations Cuesta, José Abras, Ana Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children |
| geographic_facet |
Africa Liberia |
| relation |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo |
| description |
This paper expands the analysis of equal opportunities by connecting traditional benefit incidence analysis of public spending with the human opportunity index, a distribution sensitive measure of access to public services. It also develops ex-ante micro-simulations to determine the cost of equalizing educational opportunities. This technique is applied to Liberia, a country devastated by civil war with serious educational enrollment gaps and policies highly dependent on international aid. Results from simulated increases in teachers’ salaries, elimination of fee and non-fee costs and targeted public educational spending on rural schools all point to very modest redistributive effects but distinctive patterns of winners and losers among Liberian children. |
| format |
Journal Article |
| author |
Cuesta, José Abras, Ana |
| author_facet |
Cuesta, José Abras, Ana |
| author_sort |
Cuesta, José |
| title |
Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children |
| title_short |
Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children |
| title_full |
Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children |
| title_fullStr |
Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children |
| title_sort |
education and equal opportunities among liberian children |
| publisher |
Taylor and Francis |
| publishDate |
2013 |
| url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16191 |
| _version_ |
1764432448841580544 |