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Educational poverty as a welfare loss: Low performance in the OECD according to PISA 2012

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  • Antonio Villar

    (OECD (Thomas J. Alexander Fellow) and Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.)

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This paper analyses the incidence and intensity of low performance between 15- year old students in the OECD countries, according to the last wave of PISA. Taking level 2 of proficiency as the baseline competence, we approach the measurement of low performance by applying a multidimensional poverty measure that permits interpreting educational poverty as a welfare loss. We use a conventional welfare evaluation function to derive an index that combines the incidence, intensity and inequality of educational poverty. The results show that OECD countries differ in educational poverty much more than in PISA average scores and also that they present different mixes of incidence and intensity.

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  • Antonio Villar, 2016. "Educational poverty as a welfare loss: Low performance in the OECD according to PISA 2012," Working Papers 16.04, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    educational poverty; welfare loss; low performance; PISA; OECD.;
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    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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