The Determinants of Wealth and Gender Inequity in Cognitive Skills in Latin America

The Determinants of Wealth and Gender Inequity in Cognitive Skills in Latin America

Wealth and gender inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is measured as the association between subject competency and wealth and gender using the OECD s Programme for International Student Assessment. Wealth inequity is found to occur no...

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Main Authors: Macdonald, Kevin, Barrera, Felipe, Guaqueta, Juliana, Patrinos, Harry Anthony, Porta, Emilio
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
ANALYTICAL METHOD
ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK
BASIC EDUCATION
BETTER LEARNING
BETTER SCHOOLS
COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
COGNITIVE SKILLS
COMPETENCIES
CURRICULUM
DATA ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
DISCRIMINATION
EARLY CHILDHOOD
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
EDUCATED PARENTS
EDUCATION LEVEL
EDUCATION PLANNERS
EDUCATION POLICY
EDUCATION STRATEGY
EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
ELEMENTS
EXAM
GENDER
GENDER DIFFERENCES
GENDER DISPARITIES
GENDER DISPARITY
GENDER EQUALITY
GENDER GAP
GENDER GROUPS
GENDER INEQUALITY
GENDERS
GIRLS
GIRLS SCHOOLS
HIGHER SCHOOL FEES
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN RESOURCES
INDEXES
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT
LABOR MARKETS
LABOUR FORCE
LABOUR MARKET
LABOUR MARKET OUTCOMES
LEARNING
LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT
LITERACY
LITERATURE
MATHEMATICS
PAPERS
PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS
PRIVATE SCHOOL
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
QUALITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
QUALITY SCHOOLS
READING
RESEARCHERS
RETENTION RATES
RURAL AREAS
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
SCHOOL FEES
SCHOOL QUALITY
SCHOOL RETENTION
SCHOOL SELECTION
SCHOOL SIZE
SCHOOL SYSTEM
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLING QUALITY
SCHOOLS
SCIENCE STUDY
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SECONDARY SCHOOL
SOCIETY
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
STUDENT ASSESSMENT
STUDENT ASSESSMENTS
STUDENT BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
SUBJECT AREAS
TEACHERS
VIOLENCE
WEALTHY STUDENTS
WORTH
YOUTH
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/01/11696982/determinants-wealth-gender-inequity-cognitive-skills-latin-america
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19858
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Summary:Wealth and gender inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is measured as the association between subject competency and wealth and gender using the OECD s Programme for International Student Assessment. Wealth inequity is found to occur not through disparate household characteristics but rather through disparate school characteristics; little evidence is found of an association between wealth and competency within schools. Weak evidence is found of wealth mitigating gender differences through school characteristics. These findings suggest that wealth inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is almost exclusively associated with disparate school characteristics and that disparate school characteristics may play a role in accentuating gender inequity.

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