Education and Equal Opportunities among Liberian Children

• Tác giả: José Cuesta
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 021.3 Relationships with other educational institutions
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 307284
• Chủ đề: 1. education; 2. equality of opportunity; 3. redistribution; 4. simulations

Tóm tắt

This paper expands the analysis of equal opportunities by connecting traditional benefit incidence analysis of public spending with the human opportunity index, a distribution sensitive measure of access to public services. It also develops ex-ante micro-simulations to determine the cost of equalizing educational opportunities. This technique is applied to Liberia, a country devastated by civil war with serious educational enrollment gaps and policies highly dependent on international aid. Results from simulated increases in teachers' salaries, elimination of fee and non-fee costs and targeted public educational spending on rural schools all point to very modest redistributive effects but distinctive patterns of winners and losers among Liberian children.