This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

Pese a la enorme inestabilidad macroeconomica, a primera vista las distribuciones del ingreso urbano en el Brasil en 1976 y 1996 se ven muy parecidas. El ingreso medio de los hogares por habitante estaba estacionario, con un crecimiento minusculo de 4.3% acumulado en los dos decenios. Los...

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...