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Equality of Opportunity in Education: A Case Study of Chile and Norway

Journal of Economics and Political Economy

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Title Equality of Opportunity in Education: A Case Study of Chile and Norway
 
Creator GARCES-VOISENAT, Juan-Pedro; Siena College
 
Subject Chile, Norway, education, inequality, equality of opportunity
O15, I24, I25
 
Description Abstract. One of the most important determinants of the distribution of income and life opportunities is education. Increasing levels of formal schooling have contributed to raise standards of living and eradicate extreme poverty worldwide in recent decades. However, inequality in the distribution of income –which is the single most important indicator of relative access to material well-being- remains stubbornly high in most regions of the world. In this paper, I focus on two countries, Chile and Norway, which have very different educational systems, and follow the same analytical methodology of Schütz et al (2008) to detect differences in equality of opportunity between the two countries. In a slight variation, the family-background effect here is represented by a larger number of variables –including household income-, in order to pinpoint the specific characteristics that it comprises in each country. Surprisingly, I find that the family-background effect is stronger in Norway than in Chile, which would denote a potential higher inequality. However the higher achievement inequality in Chile is determined by other factors, which need urgent reform.Keywords. Chile, Norway, education, inequality, equality of opportunity.JEL. O15, I24, I25.
 
Publisher Journal of Economics and Political Economy
Journal of Economics and Political Economy
 
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Date 2016-03-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEPE/article/view/685
10.1453/jepe.v3i1.685
 
Source Journal of Economics and Political Economy; Vol 3, No 1 (2016): March; 142-150
Journal of Economics and Political Economy; Vol 3, No 1 (2016): March; 142-150
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Language eng
 
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