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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020
Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it … labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We …
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The women empowering effect of higher education
Elsayed, Ahmed; Shirshikova, Alina - 2023
We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We …-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … marriage. The paper highlights the importance of increasing access to higher education for positive social and labor outcomes …
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Linguistic traits and human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...
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Does promoting school attendance reduce child labour? : evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT project
Hoop, Jacobus de; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2012
Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...
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Empowering women under social constraints : evidence from a field intervention in rural Egypt
Elsayed, Ahmed; Roushdy, Rania - 2017
rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785561
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Decomposition of differences in PISA results in middle income countries
Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl - 2014
Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition methods in order to identify the role of these factors for...
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Can interactive online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Lafortune, Jeanne; Pugatch, Todd; Tessada, José A.; … - 2022
We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we estimate sizeable effects of the 6-week training on entrepreneurial activity. One month after the...
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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills: roles of SES and gender attitudes
Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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Does education really cause domestic violence? : revisiting the Turkish data
Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence...
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