Evolving Inequality of School Attainment in Sri Lanka
Disparities in school outcomes are an important source of income inequality, especially in rapidly developing and developed economies where the returns to schooling have been increasing. It is therefore important to document and understand the sour...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/08/15556429/evolving-inequality-school-attainment-sri-lanka http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17974 |
| Summary: | Disparities in school outcomes are an
important source of income inequality, especially in rapidly
developing and developed economies where the returns to
schooling have been increasing. It is therefore important to
document and understand the sources of schooling inequality.
The intergenerational transmission of schooling is an
important reason for the persistence of schooling
disparities over time. More-educated parents are much more
likely than less-educated parents to invest in the schooling
of their children owing to different preferences, better
financial circumstances, and their own greater human
capital. In this paper, authors explore whether the
association between parental and child schooling has
strengthened or weakened over time. Authors find strong, but
declining, effects of parental schooling on (male and
female) child schooling over time, even after controlling
for other variables. The improved distribution of schooling
will have likely played an important role in improving the
distribution of income in the country had there not been
other compensating changes. |
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