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T1 Does geographical location impact educational disparities among Ecuadorians? A novel two-stage inequality decomposition method
A1 Guijarro-Garvi, Marta
A1 Miranda-Escolar, Belén
A1 Cedeño-Menéndez, Yira Tatiana
A1 Moyano-Pesquera, Pedro Benito
K1 Economía
K1 Ecuador
K1 Educación
K1 53 Ciencias Económicas
K1 5312.04 Educación
K1 5307.04 Estudios del desarrollo Económico
AB The aim of this paper is to assess the extent of educational disparities among Ecuadoriansattributed to their geographical location. For this purpose, a novel two-stage hierarchicaldecomposition of inequality for the half of the square of the coefficient of variation isintroduced. This method, an extension of the one-stage (within/between) decomposition, isapplicable to variables that can take the value zero, such as the ‘years of schooling’ variable.Using microdata bases from Ecuador’s National Survey of Employment, Unemployment andUnderemployment (encompassing all twenty-four provinces and four regions in 2014 and2021), we estimated the ‘years of schooling’ for individuals aged 24 and over, determiningprovincial, regional and national mean values. The proposed method allows the identificationof the extent to which educational disparities among Ecuadorians (total inequality) can beattributed to differences between provinces and regions (spatial inequality), and the extent towhich such educational inequality is due to variations among individuals within provinces.Moreover, it measures the educational inequality within each province and evaluates thecontribution of each province to intra-provincial inequality. The results indicate that, althoughspatial inequality increased between the study years, total educational inequality decreased.This is because the contribution of spatial inequality to total inequality was practically negligiblecompared to the influence of disparities among individuals within provinces. Consequently,the reduction in the intra-provincial inequality is the reason for the decrease ineducational differences among Ecuadorians. The findings potentially reflect individualfocusedpolicies, socioeconomic features of Ecuador’s provinces and align with the officialeducational statistics.
PB Springer Nature
SN 2662-9992
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74367
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74367
LA eng
NO Humanitties & Social Sciences Communications 11, 1539 (2024).
DS UVaDOC
RD 05-feb-2025