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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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We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment … model that accounts for both endogeneity and non-linearity issues, we find both positive and negative effects of remittances … are for rural females. For children in wealthier households, the effects of remittances are either negative or non …
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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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premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
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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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higher education expansion for labour income inequality has largely treated expansion as gender neutral. With this paper we … inequality to increase tertiary education among women as compared to men. To this end we draw on harmonised data from the … distributive estimates shrink towards zero over time for both women and men. Only for men does larger inequality between and within …
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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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