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Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed - 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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Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project
de Hoop, Jacobus - 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 - 2018
rural Egypt. Relative to women in the control villages, the intervention increased the likelihood of treated women engaging …
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Can Interactive Online Training Make High School Students More Entrepreneurial? Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Lafortune, Jeanne; Pugatch, Todd; Tessada, José; … - 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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Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries
Nieto, Sandra - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057037
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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills : Roles of Ses and Gender Attitudes
Herve, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere; Nandi, Arindam - 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 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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Africa's Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021
In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...
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The Impact of Hiv/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa : New Evidence
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...
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Free Primary Education, Schooling, and Fertility : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2016
schooling on fertility. Each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility, a delay in sexual activity, marriage …
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