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The relevance of educational poverty in Europe: Determinants and remedies
Tommaso AgasistiSergio LongobardiFelice RussoVincenzo Pretesubject
Multidimensional povertyEducational poverty; European countries; PISA 2006 and 2015Economics and Econometrics050208 financePoverty05 social sciencesStudent assessmentEuropean countriesEducational poverty PISA 2006 and 2015 European countriesOrder (exchange)0502 economics and businessDevelopment economicsEconomicsRelevance (law)Educational povertyPISA 2006 and 2015050207 economicsdescription
Abstract This paper explores the degree of educational poverty in European countries using data from OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This research adopts the class of additive multidimensional poverty measures proposed by Alkire & Foster (2011) and investigates the degree of educational poverty in terms of incidence, breadth, depth and severity. Also, we analyse the impact of students’ characteristics and school-level factors on the probability of being educational poor in various learning dimensions. The findings reveal that between 2006 and 2015 the incidence of educational poverty became more relevant in many European countries, while most of them experienced a reduction of poverty depth and severity. Therefore, several policy scenarios are simulated in order to highlight the school factors that can be activate to alleviate the risk of educational poverty in the European countries that experienced the highest incidence of educational poor student.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 |