Educational Opportunities

Unequal Educational Opportunities Due to Gender Issues among Nursing Students

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Insuring Educational Risk: Opportunities versus Income∗

We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successful graduation depends on individual effort to study and public resources. After realization of risk, they either work as skilled or as unskilled worker. We show that an optimal public policy consists of tuition fees combined with skill-contingent loans, lump-sum transfers/taxes, and public funding of the educationa...

Information Technologies: Opportunities for Advancing Educational Assessment

Educational Opportunities in School Health Examinations *

Much has recently been written about the educational functions of health examinations of school pupils. Studies have been concerned with the number of defects discovered and with the extent of their correction. While a major purpose of the examination may be the detection and relief of adverse conditions, action toward this end depends upon the understanding of parent and of pupil as well as up...

Equalising opportunities in health through educational policy

Despite the growing prominence of theoretical analysis of inequality of opportunity over the past twenty years, empirical work towards the normative evaluation of real-world policies has been minimal. This paper seeks to address this issue. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemer’s model of equality of opportunity. We...