Decomposing World Education Inequality
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Decomposing World Education Inequality
We decompose global inequality in educational achievement into withinand betweencountry components. We find that the former is significantly larger. This is different than results for international income inequality, but similar to results for international health inequality.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.779404