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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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Estimating the contribution of short-cycle programs to student outcomes in Colombia

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workforce in the current world of work, little is known about the contribution they make to students' outcomes, above and beyond …

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Economic crises and returns to university education in middle-income countries : stylized facts and COVID-19 projections

Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Shafiq, M. Najeeb - 2020

This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education) has increased during economic crises....

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