Education Inequality and Affirmative Action: Towards a Better Estimation

Nishan de Mel and Aloka Kumarage

No 393786, Working Papers from Verité Research

Abstract: The education sector had witnessed an overall decline in terms of budgetary allocations, and was also subject to inequality in distribution of educational opportunities within the country. Education inequality has implications for addressing poverty alleviation and equitable development through education. Education inequality is discussed in the context of the programme of affirmative action in university admissions. The paper develops a new composite indicator of education inequality and applies it to understanding inequality of education across districts. The paper seeks to understand the policy behind recognising and designating districts that should be considered as 'disadvantaged' for the purpose of affirmative action in university education.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28p.
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.393786

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