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thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex and party …
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education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using …-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
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polarisation. Based on estimated regression models, we conclude that increased returns to parental education have forcefully …
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shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education – it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …
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immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … of both early childhood investment and the structure of the education system faced by young adolescents in determining …
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girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural …
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school certificates and more than 20 per cent prematurely stopped their education process at junior high school level …. However, these education responses do not appear to have translated into lower earnings. In addition, at each level of … education attainment most of the cohort experienced missed or interrupted schooling. We show, however, that given the education …
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schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …
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as well. Education and health care have become less accessible due to increased costs linked to the decentralization of … paper applies new tools to the measure of multidimensional inequalities on wages, education and health. The multidimensional …
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This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
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