Can Schools Reduce the Indigenous Test Score Gap? Evidence from Chile.

In Chile, indigenous students obtain lower test scores, on average, than non-indigenous students. Between two cohorts of eighth-graders in the late 1990s, the test score gap declined by 0.1 to 0.2 standard deviations. An Oaxaca decomposition and related descriptive evidence suggest that the most pla...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 44; no. 10; pp. 1506 - 1531
Autor principal:	McEwan, PatrickJ.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2008
Materias:	Education Education of Indigenous peoples Achievement gap Educational change Effect of education on wages Eighth grade (Education) Cohort analysis Chile
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