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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

countries depends more on the human capital levels of their parents’ ethnic group (ethnic capital) than on parental investment …

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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement : evidence from India

Varghese, Vinitha - 2022

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … increased by 2 per cent. I further show that consolidation decreased the proportion of high scorers among grade 5 students by 0 ….08 and did not decrease the proportion of high scorers among grade 8 students by more than 0.02. School consolidation is a …

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The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

Barreto, Yuri; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2022

This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of...

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The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market : evidence from a public federal university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2020

Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this … question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian … the best students in the university entrance exam to the group that starts in the first semester, and the other 50 per …

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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education … and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …

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Less restrictive birth control, less education? : evidence from ethnic minorities in China

Liu, Yishen; Pan, Yao - 2016

children. For rural ethnic minorities, however, the level of enforcement of the birth control policy does not significantly …

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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

de Haan, Monique - 2008

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

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Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from Indonesia

Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2021

mobility. We suggest an application for Indonesia. Exploiting IFLS data to match parents observed in 1993 to their children in …

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Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities : evidence from India

Varghese, Vinitha Rachel - 2022

Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … cent increase in schooling among children with disabilities within three years. The estimate is driven by enrolment across …

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