A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures the expe...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/752571569852714031/A-Socioeconomic-Disaggregation-of-the-World-Bank-Human-Capital-Index http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32490 |
| Summary: | This paper documents inequality in
health and education outcomes by constructing an index of
human capital disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic
status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income
countries. The index measures the expected future human
capital of children born today, following the methodology of
the World Bank Human Capital Index that was launched in
October 2018. Within-country disparities in human capital
outcomes across SES quintiles are large, accounting for
roughly one-third of the total variation. On average, human
capital outcomes increase with income at roughly the same
rate across socio-economic groups within countries as they
do across countries. |
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