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Inequality in education: Evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011

2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015

deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

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Horizontal inequality, status optimization, and interethnic marriage in a conflict-affected society

McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - 2016

Although several theories of interethnic conflict emphasize ties across group boundaries as conducive to ethnic coexistence, little is known about how such ties are formed. Given their integrative potential, I examine the establishment of cross-ethnic marital ties in a deeply divided society and...

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Schooling inequality, returns to schooling, and earnings inequality: Evidence from Brazil and South Africa

Lam, David; Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray - 2015

Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in developed and developing countries. This paper...

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Private returns to education for wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda

Kavuma, Susan Namirembe; Morrissey, Oliver; Upward, Richard - 2015

The paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate homogenous and heterogeneous private returns to...

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The evolution of private returns to education during post-conflict transformation: Evidence from Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Sohnesen, Thomas Pave; Trifkovic, Neda - 2018

This paper estimates how private returns to education have evolved in the context of postconflict transformation in Mozambique. This has been characterized by rapid economic growth, significant expansion of the schooling system, but also limited structural change in a labour market dominated by...

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Revisiting the returns to education during rapid structural and rural transformation in Thailand: A regression discontinuity approach

Korwatanasakul, Upalat - 2019

developing countries, possibly because parents might be forced to keep only children with higher abilities in school, reinforcing … inequality among children within the household. …

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Returns to education in self-employment in India: A comparison across different selection models

Bairagya, Indrajit - 2020

This study focuses on estimating the returns to education in non-farm self-employed businesses in the Indian context, using nationwide individual- and household-level data provided by the India Human Development Survey for the year 2011/12. Given that different studies have used different types...

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Subjective returns to education: Rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India

Balasubramanian, Pooja - 2020

This study uses data collected from school students in Mumbai to investigate how they perceive subjective expected …. Despite lower actual returns to education in the labour market, students from Other Backward Castes and Scheduled Castes and …

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Returns to education and wage inequality in Namibia: A gendered analysis

Samahiya, Obrein Muine; Wirba, Ebenezer Lemven - 2023

/16 Namibia Income and Expenditure Survey. The paper employs recentred influence function regression to analyse the impact of … disadvantaged groups, such as women and individuals from lower-income households, by improving educational quality and supporting …

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