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-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … registration identity) and education status, household assets, the influence of past and future income and province dummies, we …
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Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic … secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than … students attending non-madrasah schools. However, failure to account for non-random sorting over-estimates the negative …
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Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested in the form of skewed sex ratios, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we show, using data from a purposefully designed...
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