To examine the role of inequality in academic achievement, we analyse a cross-national dataset including data from three cycles from 2012 to 2018 from the PISA, an international assessment of 15-year-old student
GENDER INEQUALITY.A map of the gender inequality index value by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is presented.HENNIGBENJAMINEBSCO_AspGeographical
GGGI scores theoretically range from 0 (inequality) to 1 (equality). In the present sample, they span from 0.63 (Turkey) to 0.79 (Germany). Second, we used the UNDP (2020)’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) which measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development—...
Permanyer I. A critical assessment of UNDP’s gender inequality index. Fem Econ. 2013;19(2):1–37. ArticleGoogle Scholar Madge N, Hewitt A, Hawton K, de Wilde EJ, Ystgaard M (2008) Deliberate sel-harm within an international community sample of young people: comparative findings from the...
Gender Inequality Index Active cases per million population <0.25 53 34.2% <100 115 54.8% 0.25–0.50 63 40.6% 100–500 57 27.1% >0.50–0.75 39 25.2% >500 38 18.1% Human Development Index Critical cases per million population <0.50 20 11.6% <20 101 77.7% 0.50–0.75 67 39.0% 20–50...
than gender inequality. Attempts have been made to simplify the index and make its interpretation more intuitive, though no clear consensus on how exactly the adapted indicator should look like has been reached, and to our best knowledge, the UNDP has not made any amends to the index so far...
According to the gender inequality index (GII), estimated by the United Nations Development Programme (which considers reproductive health, gender empowerment and women’s labor force participation), Germany has recently been ranked the sixth most gender equal country in the world (UNDP, 2013). At...
Healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth may be influenced by components of the gender inequality index (GII). Notably, this claim is not tested on the between components of the GII, such as population at least secondary education (PLSE) with ages 25 and older, labor force participation rate...
Income is measured by GDP per capita (in purchasing power parity) and taken from the World Bank. Because of diminishing marginal utility of income, the natural logarithm of GDP per capita was used. Gender (in)equality is measured by the UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index (GII). This index inc...
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