Type | Working Paper |
Title | Educational Marginalization Across Developed and Developing Countries |
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2010 |
URL | http://unesco.atlasproject.eu/unesco/file/a86dc83d-f6c8-401b-930f-6a457b8cc6a4/c8c7fe00-c770-11e1-9b21-0800200c9a66/186583e.pdf |
Abstract | Besides overall improvements in education in recent years, shortcomings in education persist in many countries, especially in developing regions. This paper focuses on educational marginalization and analyzes the access opportunities to the education system and the educational outcome for several pre-defined population groups. Using census data for ten developing and developed countries for two points in time, we compare the levels in school attendance rates and educational attainment for each population sub-group with the mean outcome of the country, aiming to identify the most educational marginalized population sub-groups within countries. We find high within and across country inequality between pre-defined population groups. The most educational marginalized groups are the very poor, women and girls, member of an indigenous group, the population that speaks only an indigenous language, the rural and the disabled population. Over time, we find an overall positive development both in access to education as well as in educational attainment. Although our results indicate that the educational marginalization partly persists over time, we also find an verall intergenerational upward mobility in education. However this upward mobility is concentrated at ower educational levels and bypasses higher educational levels. |