Educational inequality of opportunity in Argentina

Authors

  • Monserrat Serio CONICET-Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.25.2740

Keywords:

education, inequality of opportunity, Argentina

Abstract

This paper analyzes the inequality of opportunity on education among young students of Argentina in the 2000s. It focuses on three dimensions of secondary education: access to education, access to quality education, and educational performance of students. We estimate distributions of educational outcomes conditional to the students’ circumstances using household survey data and PISA data. The results suggest that inequality of opportunity in access to secondary education is low and it has remained stable, but the inequality of opportunity in access to high quality education has increased in the last decade. In addition, the results indicate that the inequality of opportunity of educational performance is particularly high in Argentina.

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Author Biography

Monserrat Serio, CONICET-Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Soy Licenciada en Economía de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo y Magister en Economía de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Me desempeño como docente investigadora en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo en las cátedras de Microeconomía I y de Economía de las Políticas Sociales. Soy becaria doctoral del CONICET, en estos momentos realizo mis estudios de Doctorado en Economía en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

Published

2017-12-11

How to Cite

Serio, M. (2017). Educational inequality of opportunity in Argentina. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 25, 121. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.25.2740

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