Test scores and educational opportunities: Panel evidence from five low- and middle-income countries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Das, Jishnu; Singh, Abhijeet; Chang, Andres Yi
• 署名单位: Georgetown University; Stockholm School of Economics; The World Bank
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104570
• 发表日期: 2022
• 关键词: education; Post-secondary education; Social mobility; ethiopia; INDIA; pakistan; Peru; Vietnam

摘要

The association between test scores in primary school and college attendance, and how this association differs by socioeconomic status (SES), remains an open question in low- and middle-income countries. Using data from long-running panel studies in Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam, we show that children with higher test scores at age 12 report more years of schooling and higher college attendance by -age 22 in every country. However, variation in test scores explain only -15-55% of the SES gap in years of completed schooling at age 22. A striking implication is that in every country, children from low SES backgrounds who are in the 80th percentile of test scores at age 12 have similar years of completed schooling at age 22 as children from high SES backgrounds who were at the 20th percentile of test scores. (c) 2021 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.