Regional disparities on socioeconomic-based achievement gaps

We use administrative data on education and the labour market to characterise the distribution of socioeconomic ­based achievement gaps in mainland Portugal. First, we evaluate the students’ probability of achieving a passing score, a good score or a very good score conditional on where they live and on their socioeconomic background, measured by a socioeconomic index. Second, we describe several spatial patterns in SE ­based achievement gaps. Third, we explore factors as­sociated with the regional disparities in SE ­based achievement gaps. Municipalities with higher income inequality, more school segregation and better labour market indicators have, on average, higher SE­ based achievement gaps