Does sorting matter for learning inequality?: Evidence from East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang () and Sam Jones

No wp-2019-110, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Inequalities in children's learning are widely recognized to arise from variations in both household- and school-related factors. While few studies have considered the role of sorting between schools and households, even fewer have quantified how much sorting contributes to educational inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. We fill this gap using data on over one million children from three countries in Eastern Africa.

Keywords: Africa; Inequality of opportunities; Sorting; Variance decomposition; Access to education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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