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Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Garcia-Moreno, Vicente; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Porta, Emilio – Human Development Network Education, 2011
The Oaxaca-Blinder technique was originally used in labor economics to decompose earnings gaps and to estimate the level of discrimination. It has been applied since in other social issues, including education, where it can be used to assess how much of a gap is due to differences in characteristics (explained variation) and how much is due to…
Descriptors: Labor Economics, Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George – Human Development Network Education, 2011
Progress in educational development in the world since 1900 has been slow and uneven between countries. Providing basic education for all children in developing countries has been and remains an unmet challenge of governments and international organizations alike. This is in sharp contrast to recent findings in the economics literature on the…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Economic Progress, Human Capital, Income