Inequality and Segregation

Vani Borooah and Colin Knox
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Colin Knox: Ulster University

Chapter 5 in The Economics of Schooling in a Divided Society, 2015, pp 84-115 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we analyse issues of inequality and segregation. We begin with ‘performance inequality’, first between grammar schools and secondary schools and, second, between secondary schools only. In conducting this analysis, two methods are used to quantify the nature of such inequalities. The first is that of inequality decomposition whereby overall inequality is expressed as the sum of ‘between group’ and ‘within group’ inequality. This technique is applied to grammar/secondary inequality so that inequality in educational performance between the 205 post-primary schools in Northern Ireland can be decomposed as the sum of inequality between grammar and secondary schools and within grammar and secondary schools. The intellectual foundations for this decomposition lie in Theil (1967), Shorrocks (1980), and Cowell and Jenkins (1995).

Keywords: School Leaver; Inequality Aversion; Catholic School; Grammar School; Integrate School (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137461872_5

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