This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower …

education condition, and young children and mothers were only subject to health conditions in the absence of older children …

families receiving the "education" transfer, which targeted 6-18 year-olds, perceived no benefit. In comparison with other … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …

economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …

-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic … endowments are malleable, for example via policies that target education. …

two key channels of transmission, namely education and trade. Thirty-six Sub-Saharan African countries during the period …