A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

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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Main Authors: D'Souza, Ritika, Gatti, Roberta, Kraay, Aart
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:
HUMAN CAPITAL
HEALTH
EDUCATION
INEQUALITY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/752571569852714031/A-Socioeconomic-Disaggregation-of-the-World-Bank-Human-Capital-Index
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spelling okr-10986-324902022-09-20T00:14:05Z A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index D'Souza, Ritika Gatti, Roberta Kraay, Aart HUMAN CAPITAL HEALTH EDUCATION INEQUALITY 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. 2019-10-04T19:06:24Z 2019-10-04T19:06:24Z 2019-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/752571569852714031/A-Socioeconomic-Disaggregation-of-the-World-Bank-Human-Capital-Index http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32490 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9020 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic HUMAN CAPITAL
HEALTH
EDUCATION
INEQUALITY
spellingShingle HUMAN CAPITAL
HEALTH
EDUCATION
INEQUALITY
D'Souza, Ritika
Gatti, Roberta
Kraay, Aart
A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9020
description 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.
format Working Paper
author D'Souza, Ritika
Gatti, Roberta
Kraay, Aart
author_facet D'Souza, Ritika
Gatti, Roberta
Kraay, Aart
author_sort D'Souza, Ritika
title A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
title_short A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
title_full A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
title_fullStr A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
title_full_unstemmed A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
title_sort socioeconomic disaggregation of the world bank human capital index
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/752571569852714031/A-Socioeconomic-Disaggregation-of-the-World-Bank-Human-Capital-Index
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32490
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