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Migration and forsaken schooling in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-27

Large international earnings differentials negatively impact human capital investments in migrant-origin countries. We find that three Central Asian migrant-sending countries-the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan-are facing a for-saken schooling...

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Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...

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Job Status, International Migration and Educational Choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...

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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application

Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008

It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...

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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality: Education premiums in 22 OECD countries

Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018

premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …

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Gender gaps in education: The long view

Evans, David K.; Akmal, Maryam; Jakiela, Pamela - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in...

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Public finance in the era of the COVID-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022

The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...

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Diverging destinies in international perspective: Education, single motherhood, and child poverty

Härkönen, Juho - 2017

social inequality. In this study, I used data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to describe trends in educational … amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …

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