The relevance of educational poverty in Europe: Determinants and remedies

Tommaso Agasisti, Sergio Longobardi, Vincenzo Prete and Felice Russo

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2021, vol. 43, issue 3, 692-709

Abstract: This paper explores the degree of educational poverty in European countries using data from OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This research adopts the class of additive multidimensional poverty measures proposed by Alkire & Foster (2011) and investigates the degree of educational poverty in terms of incidence, breadth, depth and severity. Also, we analyse the impact of students’ characteristics and school-level factors on the probability of being educational poor in various learning dimensions. The findings reveal that between 2006 and 2015 the incidence of educational poverty became more relevant in many European countries, while most of them experienced a reduction of poverty depth and severity. Therefore, several policy scenarios are simulated in order to highlight the school factors that can be activate to alleviate the risk of educational poverty in the European countries that experienced the highest incidence of educational poor student.

Keywords: Educational poverty; PISA 2006 and 2015; European countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2020.03.015

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