Do Schools Reinforce or Reduce Learning Gaps between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students? Evidence from Vietnam and Peru

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4832207
AutoresPaul Glewwe (0000-0002-1473-2494, University of Minnesota), Sofya Krutikova, Sonya Krutikova (0000-0003-2488-7489, Institute for Fiscal Studies), Caine Rolleston (0000-0002-4564-4331, University College London)
Año2017
Volumen65
Número4
Páginas699-739
Fecha de publicación2017-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/691993
PMID29805178
OpenAlexW2518105317
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas30

This paper examines - for two developing countries, Vietnam and Peru - whether disadvantaged children learn less than advantaged children when both types of children are enrolled in the same school. This is done by estimating education production functions that contain two school fixed effects for each school, one for advantaged children and one for disadvantaged children. The paper examines six different definitions of advantage, based on household wealth, cognitive skills at age 5, gender, ethnicity (Peru only), maternal education, and nutritional status. The results show no sign that schools are less effective for disadvantaged groups in Vietnam; indeed if anything one traditionally advantaged group, males, seems to do worse in school than the corresponding disadvantaged group, females. In contrast, in Peru ethnic minority students and students who enter primary school with low cognitive skills appear to learn less in school than ethnic majority students and students with relatively high cognitive skills, respectively, who are enrolled in the same school

Cognition · Cognitive skill · Developmental psychology · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Sociology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · School Choice and Performance