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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
in returns to education and school quality, and possible complementarity between parent's education and financial … school quality is complementary to or a substitute for parental financial investment. This paper finds evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390631
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Heterogenous peer effects, segregation and academic attainment
Ana Lugo, Maria - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010218269
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Inequality of opportunity in education : accounting for the contributions of sibs, schools and sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2018
in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools …
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Intervening at home and then at school : a randomized evaluation of two approaches to improve early educational outcomes in Tonga
Macdonald, Kevin; Brinkman, Sally; Jarvie, Wendy; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002660
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Education spillovers in farm productivity : revisiting the evidence
Gille, Véronique - 2019
This paper exploits the social organization of India to revisit the question of education spillovers in farm productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed correlation between farm productivity and neighbors'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008386
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Delivering education : a pragmatic framework for improving education in low-income countries
Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289896
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The power of believing you can get smarter : th impact of a growth-mindset intervention on academic achievement in Peru
Outes-León, Ingo; Sanchez, Alan; Vakis, Renos - 2020
public schools in urban Peru. Expande tu Mente is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person …
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The measurement of inequality of opportunity : theory and an application to Latin America
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003746126
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004719
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School resource and performance inequality : evidence from the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2014
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