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标题：Literacy and Education in Ireland
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作者：Kevin Denny ; Colm Harmon ; Dorren McMahon 等
期刊名称：Economic and Social Review
印刷版ISSN：0012-9984
出版年度：1999
卷号：30
期号：3
页码：215-226
出版社：Economic and Social Research Institute
摘要：Recent media attention has focused on the low ranking of Ireland in a major internationalstudy on literacy. In this paper we examine the dataset used in these studies to consider the reasonbehind the low ranking. We find significant evidence that the underlying reason for this is the lowlevel of formal schooling of older individuals, possibly due to the lack of free secondary schooling.Moreover we find that formal schooling in Ireland has a bigger effect on literacy outcomes than ineither Northern Ireland or Great Britain