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Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race...
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Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in … proportion of time spent with the noncustodial parent and the ex-post parental income distribution. Our results show that a more … equal allocation of time with the child, though beneficial to the children, may have a negative effect for the mother …
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Rural elderly have 40% of the income of those in urban areas, spend a larger share of their income on food, are in … worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The … with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …
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-secondary schooling, students at this level should pay tuition, to recoup more of the public costs of schooling, which may be …
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if the children of well-educated parents paid the public costs of their schooling, and these tuition revenues facilitated … the expansion of higher education and financed fellowships for children of the poor and less educated parents. …, are not needed to motivate students to enroll, and those who have in the past enrolled in these levels of education are …
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There is hardly any estimate of the returns to schooling in India based on a national level representative data for the recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by rural-urban) for the most recent period 1993/4, and...
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complemented with support for children, especially girls from resource constrained households to reach the secondary and tertiary …
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and child mortality, life expectation, and school enrollment rates, controlling for national income, women's and men … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in … most other low-income settings. …
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