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-sharing between the two generations, so that poor families experience higher agency costs, therefore inequality persists. …
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capital falls in the diversified regime. Also, there exists constant level of between group income inequality in the imitation …-only and innovation-only regimes. However, wage and income inequality between skilled and unskilled human capital rises as an … economy bridges its gap from the world technology frontier. There exists constant level of income inequality within skilled …
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develops a research design to study the effects of parents' education and occupation on children's schooling. We use survey … developed matching and propensity score weighted estimators shows that the mean effects of parents education from the standard … model miss substantial heterogeneity. Within the low education subsample, a son (girl) attains about 0.80 (0.60) years of …
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Education plays an important role in the economic and social development of countries. Myriad studies show that … education is one of the best ways to offer increased socioeconomic opportunities, social mobility and wages. Not only is … universal education important but more significant is the quality of the education. In an attempt to offer higher …
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As part of the Country Programme preparation activities, a rapid assessment on child labour and education was … undertaken with a specific interest in the programme implications for IPEC. This study looked at child labour and education … issues, not only to understand child labour, but also to understand its implications for the design of education policies and …
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While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance...
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The current study consists of a regional analysis of children participation in education in Romania. From an … services provision (including education) between the two areas of residence. The analysis is part of the UNICEF and the UNESCO … policy responses related to exclusion from education. In Romania, the study was carried out by specialists from Ministry of …
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In this paper , we consider an economic growth model with human capital accumulation , positive externalities and a cultural system of social norms . We show that endogenous rational emergence of this cultural belief may lead to increasing the stock of human capital and hence accelerating...
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difficult. I exploit the within school cohort variation in ethnic diversity of a rich data-set about primary education in the …
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We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits … they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority … groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural resistance. Economic and cultural incentives interact in surprising …
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