The Scope for Promoting Equal Opportunity in Education: Evidence from the Kibbutz

Moshe Justman and Yaakov Gilboa ()
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Yaakov Gilboa: Department of Applied Economics, Sapir Academic College, M.P. Hof Ashkelon, Israel

Education Finance and Policy, 2012, vol. 7, issue 4, 489-515

Abstract: We compare the link between parents’ schooling and their children’s college-entrance test scores in Israeli kibbutzim (communal villages) and in the general population. Though kibbutzim are committed to an egalitarian ethos and provide all kibbutz children with similar need-based access to educational resources, we still find a substantial link between kibbutz parents’ schooling and their children’s test scores—roughly three-fifths its size in the general population. This confirms the importance of non-pecuniary channels of parental influence on education and provides an informative reference point on the practical scope for reducing origin dependence in education through public policy. © 2012 Association for Education Finance and Policy

Keywords: education; parent schooling; student test scores; Israel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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