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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943825
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943888
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440656
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424117
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472598
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Class size versus class composition: What matters for learning in East Africa?
Jones, Sam - 2013
Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the impact of cutting class sizes on skills acquisition. Considerably less attention has been given to the extent to which peer effects, which refer to class composition, also may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319833
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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Globalization and the emergence of a transnational oligarchy
Brezis, Elise S. - 2010
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century, the main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280198
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Less restrictive birth control, less education? Evidence from ethnic minorities in China
Liu, Yishen; Pan, Yao - 2016
affect education. The documented negative impact on education of urban ethnic minorities, combined with the improved quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532405
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Educational inequality in Mozambique
van der Berg, Servaas; da Maia, Carlos; Burger, Cobus - 2017
higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a … the woman opposes her partner’s violence, the higher her education and body mass index, among female children, and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151179