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Gender score gaps of Colombian students in the pisa test

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  • Luz Karime Abadía Alvarado

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This paper measures the gender score gap of Colombian students in the math and reading components of the Pisa test. The econometric exercise shows that on average, boys outperform girls in math, and girls outperform boys in reading, when comparing boys and girls with similar individual, family and school characteristics. Moreover, using the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition I find that observable characteristics account for 22% and 34% of the gap in math and reading, respectively. This effect is due mainly to individual factors, that is, if girls do not outnumber boys in the last grades of secondary school, and additionally, they don't have a lower repetition grade in comparison with boys, the gender gap would be greater in math and lower in reading. ****** Resumen Este trabajo mide la brecha de género académica en matemáticas y lectura de los estudiantes colombianos en las pruebas PISA. Los resultados de las estimaciones confirman que, en promedio, cuando se compararan ninos y ninas con similares características individuales, familiares y escolares los ninos obtienen mejores puntajes que las ninas en matemáticas y lo contrario sucede en lectura. Adicionalmente, usando la descomposición de Blinder-Oaxaca se encuentra que las características observables favorecen a las ninas y éstas explican el 22% y el 34% de la brecha en matemáticas y lectura respectivamente. Este efecto se debe principalmente a las características individuales, es decir, si las ninas no estuvieran en mayor proporción en los últimos grados del bachillerato y adicionalmente si ellas no tuvieran una menor tasa de repitencia escolar en comparación con los ninos, la brecha en matemáticas sería mayor y la de lenguaje menor.

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  • Luz Karime Abadía Alvarado, 2017. "Gender score gaps of Colombian students in the pisa test," Vniversitas Económica 15675, Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000416:015675
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    Keywords

    PISA; gender score gap; performance; math; reading; inequality****** PISA; brecha de género escolar; desempeño; matemáticas; lectura; desigualdad.;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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