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Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine A. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...

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Class size versus class composition : what matters for learning in East Africa?

Jones, Sam - 2013

Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the impact of cutting class sizes on skills acquisition. Considerably less attention has been given to the extent to which peer effects, which refer to class composition, also may...

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Less restrictive birth control, less education? : evidence from ethnic minorities in China

Liu, Yishen; Pan, Yao - 2016

affect education. The documented negative impact on education of urban ethnic minorities, combined with the improved quality …

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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …

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Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status

Taubman, Paul J. - 1980

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

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Education and Self-Selection

Willis, Robert J. - 1978

A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...

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Education : Consumption or Production

Lazear, Edward P. - 1975

It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …

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Education and Consanguineous Marriage

Akyol, Ş. Pelin - 2020

institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education …

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Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?

Remler, Dahlia K. - 2009

Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …

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