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Bridging the Gaps: Inequalities in Childrens' Educational Outcomes in Ireland
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Date Issued
2014-11
Date Available
2014-11-26T10:01:53Z
Abstract
Recent developments in the inequality literature has stressed the importance of inequality of opportunity as opposed to inequality of outcome.
In this paper we investigate the presence of ex post inequality of opportunity in two measures of educational achievement for a representative sample of Irish 9 year olds.
Students are partitioned into four groups according to maternal education levels and gaps in outcomes are calculated between each group. Quantile decompositions of the
pairwise gaps reveal that almost half of the gaps can be explained by differences in characteristics between the groups Detailed decompositions show consistently significant effects for income, number of childrens' books in the home and maternal age.
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Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP14/20
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2014 the author
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Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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