How Much Difference Does School Make and For Whom?

This chapter focuses on understanding distributional equity of access to quality schooling in a comparative framework, using Young Lives data from Vietnam and Peru. These two countries provide examples of somewhat different educational systems and contexts ? in particular the vast majority of pupils in Vietnam attend government schools near their homes with many common features including common curricula and textbooks, while in Peru children attend a more heterogeneous range of schools including government and private, monolingual and bilingual schools.

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Reference: 

Krutikova, Sofya, Caine Rolleston and Elisabetta Aurino (2014) ' How Much Difference Does School Make and For Whom? A Two-Country Study of the Impact of School Quality on Educational Attainment', in  Michael Bourdillon and Jo Boyden (eds) Growing up in Poverty: Findings from Young Lives (pp. 201-224). Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan.