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 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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Macdonald, Kevin, Barrera, Felipe, Guaqueta, Juliana, Patrinos, Harry Anthony, Porta, Emilio
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2010-01
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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