Commentary: How can policy reduce intergenerational inequality?

Lee Elliot Major

Chapter 31 in Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality, 2024, pp 415-422 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter I highlight three promising education policies based on international evidence that have the potential to reduce intergenerational inequalities. These three policies are one-to-one or small group tutoring for pupils from under-resourced backgrounds, deploying mixed ability teaching rather than tracking or ability grouping of students, and texting of parents by schools to improve home learning environments. All three are based on strong evidence of impact and hold realistic promise of being embraced by policy makers and to equalise outcomes across generations. But they also reveal that evidence-informed policy making is a long term, often unpredictable, relational, and complex process.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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