Measuring education inequality - Gini coefficients of education (English)

The authors use a Gini index to measure inequality in educational attainment. They present two methods (direct and indirect) for calculating an education Gini index, and generate a quinquennial data set on education Gini indexes for the over-15-population in 85 countries (1960-90). Preliminary empirical analysis suggests that: 1) Inequality in education in most of the countries declined over the three decades, with a few exceptions. 2) Inequality...

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Fan,Xibo;

Thomas,Vinod;

Wang, Yan;
Document Date
2001/01/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS2525
Volume No
1
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1
Country
World,
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Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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Measuring education inequality - Gini coefficients of education
Keywords
standard deviation

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Fan,Xibo; Thomas,Vinod; Wang, Yan.

Measuring education inequality - Gini coefficients of education (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2525 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/361761468761690314

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