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and infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. We show that despite a reduction in … the real value of the household consumption and a surge in outcome inequality between 2009/10 and 2010/11, the consumption … dynamic appears to alleviate inequality of opportunity in Uganda. …
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … good quality. This study investigates inequality in past attainment, in current school access, and learning or educational …
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I discuss a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources. I … element indicating the marginal change in the inequality contribution of a group (as measured by the recentered influence … function) when an income source is added and with all contributions adding up to overall inequality. The approach can be used …
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high levels of income inequality continuously debated. When solutions are discussed, one of the more frequently recited … could in fact have exacerbated inequality, despite society having undertaken national educational expansion. The data … high income households, the curative effects of educational expansion on income inequality appear to be paradoxical …
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risk and thus could lead to exacerbating income inequality. The crisis creates an opportunity to demand further structural … economy is growing relatively slowly. Moreover, financial reforms are effective in reducing income inequality in periods when …
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at all levels. Gender inequality has become a major issue in Eritrea in the recent years. This paper discusses … educational development in the country. It identifies and analyses various factors that cause gender inequality in education …
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While income inequality in third world countries has aggressively been commented and studied extensively, little … analysis is relatively available on measuring inequality in other dimensions of human development. The main findings suggest … that inequality in education as measured by education Gini is negatively associated with average years schooling, implying …
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Abstract This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the … context of education inequality. The econometric results from a cross-section analysis of 23 provinces in the period of 1996 …
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In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
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redistribution policy makes it possible to increase output per capita and to reduce inequality because both increase the educated …
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