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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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Published in:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 44; no. 10; pp. 1506 - 1531
Main Author: McEwan, PatrickJ.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2008
Subjects:
Education
Education of Indigenous peoples
Achievement gap
Educational change
Effect of education on wages
Eighth grade (Education)
Cohort analysis
Chile
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