Equality of opportunity and educational achievement in Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Carneiro, Pedro
Data de Publicação: 2008
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/15565
Resumo: Portugal has one of the highest levels of income inequality in Europe, and low wages and unemployment are concentrated among low skill individuals. Education is an important determinant of inequality. However, there are large differences in the educational attainment of different individuals in the population, and the sources of these differences emerge early in the life-cycle when families play a central role in individual development. We estimate that most of the variance of school achievement at age 15 is explained by family characteristics. Observed school inputs explain very little of adolescent performance. Children from highly educated parents benefit of rich cultural environments in the home and become highly educated adults. Education policy needs to be innovative: (1) it needs to explicitly recognize the fundamental long run role of families on child development; (2) it needs to acknowledge the failure of traditional input based policies.
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title Equality of opportunity and educational achievement in Portugal
spellingShingle Equality of opportunity and educational achievement in Portugal
Carneiro, Pedro
Income inequality
Education
Performance
title_short Equality of opportunity and educational achievement in Portugal
title_full Equality of opportunity and educational achievement in Portugal
title_fullStr Equality of opportunity and educational achievement in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Equality of opportunity and educational achievement in Portugal
title_sort Equality of opportunity and educational achievement in Portugal
author Carneiro, Pedro
author_facet Carneiro, Pedro
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Carneiro, Pedro
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Income inequality
Education
Performance
topic Income inequality
Education
Performance
description Portugal has one of the highest levels of income inequality in Europe, and low wages and unemployment are concentrated among low skill individuals. Education is an important determinant of inequality. However, there are large differences in the educational attainment of different individuals in the population, and the sources of these differences emerge early in the life-cycle when families play a central role in individual development. We estimate that most of the variance of school achievement at age 15 is explained by family characteristics. Observed school inputs explain very little of adolescent performance. Children from highly educated parents benefit of rich cultural environments in the home and become highly educated adults. Education policy needs to be innovative: (1) it needs to explicitly recognize the fundamental long run role of families on child development; (2) it needs to acknowledge the failure of traditional input based policies.
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