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Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies across Countries and of Schools within Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2010
This study examines the variation in educational outcomes across and within countries using the TIMSS mathematics tests. It documents the wide cross-country variation in the level and dispersion of test scores. Countries with the highest test scores are those with the least inequality in scores,...
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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries
Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362018
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Household decisions, gender, and development : a synthesis of recent research
Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001833173
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Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development
Vogl, Tom - 2013
its aggregate implications. Before 1960, children from larger families had richer parents and obtained more education. By … skill returns lowered the minimum income at which parents invest in education …Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459534
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Aggregating the Fertility Transition : Intergenerational Dynamics in Quality and Quantity
Vogl, Tom - 2017
Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed back into the evolution of average fertility across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455600
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Do Differences in Schools' Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
Lavy, Victor - 2010
The time that children spend in school varies across countries. Do these differences explain international gaps in … pupils' academic achievements? In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students' achievement using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462428
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Educational Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries : A Meta-Analysis
García, Sandra - 2017
- and middle-income countries worldwide, focusing on educational outcomes that include enrollment, attendance, dropout and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455088
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Patterns of Skill Premia
Acemoglu, Daron - 1999
In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471782
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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009
1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463862
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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