Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children

This paper expands the analysis of equal opportunities by connecting traditional benefit incidence analysis of public spending with the human opportunity index, a distribution sensitive measure of access to public services. It also develops ex-ante micro-simulations to determine the cost of equalizing educational opportunities. This technique is applied to Liberia, a country devastated by civil war with serious educational enrollment gaps and policies highly dependent on international aid. Results from simulated increases in teachers’ salaries, elimination of fee and non-fee costs and targeted public educational spending on rural schools all point to very modest redistributive effects but distinctive patterns of winners and losers among Liberian children.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Cuesta, José, Abras, Ana
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2013-09-12
Subjects:	equality of opportunity, education, redistribution, simulations,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16191
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