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Educational inequality
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - 2022
This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...
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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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Private tutoring : evidence from India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2015
Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring involve two decisions: a) whether to take private tuition...
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Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system
Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...
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China’s higher education expansion and its labor market consequences
Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010
Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … school graduate. That of the college graduate deceased, but only slightly and not significantly. -- China ; higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969742
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Access to higher education and inequality : the Chinese experiment
Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - 2007
returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597341
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Sorting, selection, and transformation of the return to college education in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
during China's between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget …-constraint effects as China's education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …
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The impact of an un(der)funded inclusive education policy: evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey
Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu; Xu, Lei - 2021
Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through … children who are currently living in China's top 120 migrant-receiving counties or city districts, and Shanghai. We also …
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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …
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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020
farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …
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