An investigation of the magnitude of educational disadvantage amongst indigenous and non-indigenous minority groups in Australia

Steve Bradley, Colin P. Green (), Mirko Draca and Gareth David Leeves ()

No 2168, Working Papers from Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department

Abstract: Indigenous minority groups in countries such as the US, Canada and Australia are amongst the most disadvantaged minority groups in the de-veloped world. This disadvantage is strongly associated with 'pre-market' factors. This paper examines pre-market disadvantage of indigenous Australians by assessing academic performance at a relatively early age. We find that, when compared to non-indigenous Australians, indigenous Australians are already, on average, 1 year behind in academic achievement by the age of 10. Furthemore, their performance continues to deteriorate over the next two years of schooling. Only a limited proportion of their poor achievement can be accounted for by observable personal characteristics or unobservable variations in school and spatial characteristics.

Keywords: educational achievement; indigenous minorities. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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