Burgess, S;
Dickson, M;
Macmillan, LA;
(2020)
Do selective schooling systems increase inequality?
Oxford Economic Papers
, 72
(1)
pp. 1-24.
10.1093/oep/gpz028.
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Abstract
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those growing up under a selective education system with those educated under a comprehensive system in England. Controlling for a range of background characteristics and the current location, the wage distribution for individuals who grew up in selective schooling areas is substantially and significantly more unequal. The total effect sizes are large: 24% of the raw 90–10 earnings gap and 19% of the conditional 90–10 earnings gap can be explained by differences across schooling systems.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Do selective schooling systems increase inequality? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oep/gpz028 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpz028 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Oxford University Press 2019. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | selective schooling, inequality, wages, quantile regression |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership > Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060088 |
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