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

Ferreira, María M.; Franco Hernandez, Andrea; … - 2020

Short-cycle higher education programs last between one and three years and capture approximately 20 percent of the world's higher education enrollment. Although they hold great promise for the skilling, up-skilling, and re-skilling of the workforce in the current world of work, little is known...

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Families, schools, and primary-school learning : evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective

Woessmann, Ludger - 2005

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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 … effects of outreach and financial aid interventions on the access and completion rates of disadvantaged students in higher … education. The paper finds that outreach policies are broadly effective in increasing access for disadvantaged students when …

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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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Hidden human capital : psychological empowerment and adolescent girls' aspirations in India

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Equity in tertiary education in Central America : an overview

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Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity

Bussolo, Maurizio; Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2019

The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement at a specific point in time. Using repeated cross-section surveys for five European...

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The rural-urban divide and intergenerational educational mobility in a developing country : theory and evidence from Indonesia

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020

This paper provides an analysis of the rural-urban divide in intergenerational educational mobility in Indonesia with two distinguishing features. First, the estimating equations are derived from theory incorporating rural-urban differences in returns to education and school quality, and...

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Are the children of uneducated farmers doubly disadvantaged? : farm, nonfarm and intergenerational educational mobility in rural China

Emran, M. Shahe; Sun, Yan - 2015

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Does longer compulsory education equalize schooling by gender and rural/urban residence?

Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Koç, İsmet - 2015

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