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Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp? Evidence from host communities in Rwanda
Bilgili, Özge; Fransen, Sonja; Loschmann, Craig; … - 2018
camp does not have a negative influence on the education of local children. On the contrary, children residing closer to … views regarding the effects of refugees on local education. These results contribute to the body of literature on the …
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Inequality and the changing nature of work in Peru
Ballon, Paola; Dávalos, Jorge - 2020
This paper identifies the socioeconomic drivers of earnings inequality in Peru in the period 2004-18. Using the ENAHO household surveys and data on routine task content of occupations, we apply inequality decomposition methods to the real earnings distribution, its quantiles, and the Gini index....
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Employment status and educational attainment among disabled Ghanaians
Afoakwah, Clifford; Dauda, Fatima - 2016
of human empowerment such as education and employment. While some employers are unwilling to hire, the educational … systems do not provide enabling environment for a good education. This paper explores employment and educational attainment … that education increases their chance of employment. Moreover, while women with disabilities are dually disadvantaged in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532382
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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK
Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018
role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943864
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Redistribution without structural change in Ecuador: Rising and falling income inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
Ponce, Juan; Vos, Rob - 2012
This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a new leftist government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly associated...
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Revisiting the returns to education during rapid structural and rural transformation in Thailand: A regression discontinuity approach
Korwatanasakul, Upalat - 2019
This paper estimates returns to schooling in Thailand, applying a regression discontinuity approach to the change in the compulsory schooling law in 1978. This law helped to enhance human capital investment on the eve of rapid structural transformation. The returns to schooling based on our...
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Private beats public: A flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers
Brandt, Kasper - 2018
This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...
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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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The education sector in Mozambique: From access to epistemic quality in primary education
Mário, Mouzinho; Monjane, Celso Marcos; Santos, Ricardo - 2020
education. In the pursuit of this aim, the extension of access to primary education was achieved relatively successfully, given … management, as being factors with a major influence on the poor quality of education in primary schools. …
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Elementary education in India versus China: Guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …
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