Similar Search Results

Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020

intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lower returns, and assign lower weights to their welfare ("pure son … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241186

Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings

Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020

Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740

How to improve education outcomes most efficiently? : a comparison of 150 interventions using the new learning-adjusted years of schooling metric

Angrist, Noam; Evans, David K.; Filmer, Deon; … - 2020

Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390565

Impact of early life exposure to environments with unimproved sanitation on education outcomes : evidence from Bangladesh

Joseph, George; Hoo, Yi Rong; Moqueet, Nazia Sultana; … - 2019

in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using pseudo-panel data for children ages six to nine years in …-a difference of 8 to 10 percentage points-for children ages six to seven. It is also strong in rural areas. The results are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167885

Returns to education in Azerbaijan : some new estimates

Garcia Moreno, Vicente; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2020

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228392

Ethnicity, education, and earnings in Bolivia and Guatemala

Psacharopoulos, George - 1992

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138726

The slippery slope : explaining the increase in extreme poverty in urban Brazil, 1976 - 96

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001436406

Qui poursuit des etudes superieures? L'incidence directe et indirecte des antecedents familiaux sur l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires

Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross; Sweetman, Arthur - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

Le present document de recherche revele que les antecedents familiaux (niveau de scolarite des parents, type de famille …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005322038

Antecedents familiaux et acces aux etudes postsecondaires : que s'est-il passe pendant les annees 1990?

Laporte, Christine; Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

Dans cet article, on fait etat de nouvelles donnees sur les relations entre l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires et les antecedents familiaux. A cette fin, on utilise les donnees tirees de l'Enquete aupres des sortants (EAS) et celles de l'Enquete aupres des jeunes en transition (EJET) pour...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005322083

L'acces aux etudes postsecondaires est-il plus equitable au Canada ou aux Etats Unis?

Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

La presente etude comparative porte sur le role que jouent les antecedents familiaux dans l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires au Canada et aux Etats Unis. Etant donne que les etudes postsecondaires sont financees d'une facon tres differente dans l'un et l'autre pays, les antecedents familiaux...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170057