Inequality of Educational Outcomes: International Evidence from PISA

Richard B. Freeman ^[1] ; Stephen Machin ^[1] ; Martina Viarengo ^[2]
1. [1] London School of Economics and Political Science
  
  London School of Economics and Political Science
  
  Reino Unido
2. [2] Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
  
  Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
  
  Genève, Suiza
Localización: Estudios Economicos Regionales y Sectoriales : EERS: Regional and sectoral economic studies : RSES, ISSN 1578-4460, Vol. 11, Nº. Extra 3, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Issue on Economics of Education in collaboration with AEDE), págs. 5-20
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This paper examines the relation between measures of the within-country inequality of student scores on international academic tests and the average level of scores across countries, using the PISA mathematics tests over 2000-2009. It finds that average test scores are higher in countries with lower inequality in scores – a virtuous efficiency-equity relation in test performance – and that family background factors are differently associated with student test performance across countries, but display little impact on the country-wide dispersion of test scores.