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Measuring education inequality in the Philippines

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title Measuring education inequality in the Philippines
 
Creator Mesa, Eirene P.; China Banking Corporation, Manila
 
Subject education; education inequality; education Gini coefficient; inequality
 
Description This paper measures the degree of education inequality in the Philippines. It generates the average years of schooling (AYS) and education Gini coefficients of the Philippines as a whole, and all its regions and provinces to examine the economically active population’s level of educational attainment and the distribution of education. The paper finds that although inequality in educational attainment declined from 1960 to 2000, there are wide discrepancies in the educational performance of regions and provinces. Using decomposition analysis, it finds that poor provinces have greater education inequality than nonpoor provinces. It also finds that at the national level, women are facing a more equitable distribution of education than males. The regional and provincial data show that the education Gini index is negatively associated with the average years of schooling and gross domestic regional product, but positively associated with the income Gini index, poverty incidence, and poverty gap. JEL classification: D63, I121, I32
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
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Date 2007-12-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/227
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 44, No 2 (2007)
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/227/630
 
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