Measuring educational inequalities:A method and an application to Albania

Nathalie Picard and François-Charles Wolff

No 2007-21, THEMA Working Papers from THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate whether educational inequalities stem rather from differences between families or within families. In a poor economy, schooling is costly for parents and education is likely to be unequally distributed among siblings. Drawing on discrete ordered choice models, we present a simple method to estimate the between and within components of both the explained and unexplained variances of education. For our empirical analysis, we use the LSMS survey conducted in 2002 in Albania. We explain about 40% of the total variance and find that inequalities in education are mainly due to differences between families. Differences within family are lower and far less easily explained.

Keywords: Education; intra-household inequality; random effects ordered Probit models; siblings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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