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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784106
The paper investigates whether, as is often suggested by the literature, diversification towards the non-agricultural sector is considered as a risk-mitigating strategy by rural Pakistani households. This issue has already been addressed but usually as an ex post mechanism, i.e. smoothing...
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determined by education and pollution. The government can implement a tax on pollution and recycle the revenue in public … pollution abatement and/or education subsidy (influencing green behaviors). When agent's preferences for the environment are … the tax revenue is well allocated between education and direct environmental protection. …
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This paper analyzes the relationships between HIV/AIDS and education taking into account the appropriative nature of …
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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
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Empirical evidence that access to higher education is constrained by credit availability is limited and usually … matched individual data from both a credit institution (Eduloan) and the Department of Education. Based on a regression … education by more than 20 percentage points in a population of student loan applicants. …
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. Descriptive statistics show a continuous spread of education that has accelerated in the second half of the twentieth century. We …
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This paper examines the existence of convergence and the importance of education on carbon dioxide growth per capita … education is not a factor in carbon dioxide emissions growth. Contrary to commonly held beliefs based on intuition, we provide … evidence that, in developing countries, there is no convergence, and that education is not a factor in carbon dioxide growth …
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