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What works to reduce inequalities in higher education? : a systematic review of the (quasi-)experimental literature on outreach and financial aid

Herbaut, Estelle; Geven, Koen - 2019

Policy makers are increasingly searching for ways to allow more disadvantaged students to access and complete higher … opportunity to identify the causal effects of these interventions on disadvantaged students and discuss inequality mechanisms at … effects of outreach and financial aid interventions on the access and completion rates of disadvantaged students in higher …

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Inequality in China : an overview

Knight, John B. - 2013

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Are they really being served? : assessing effective infrastructure access and quality in 15 Kenyan cities

Gulyani, Sumila; Rizvi, Andrea; Talukdar, Debabrata - 2019

This paper proposes a framework that examines three levels of access to infrastructure-nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most conventional indicators measure nominal access-whether a household has physical access to a service in or near the house. By contrast, effective access...

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Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions

Beegle, Kathleen; Himelein, Kristen; Ravallion, Martin - 2009

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A curse of comparison? : evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns

Kuegler, Alice - 2009

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