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' compulsory schooling. India's NEP 2020 has components that have the potential to improve quality, equity, and efficiency of the …
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cent increase in schooling among children with disabilities within three years. The estimate is driven by enrolment across …
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variation in time and region on schooling, ages at marriage and first birth outcomes with regression discontinuity and … schooling by at least 0.4 years, and delayed age at first marriage and age at first birth by at least 0.4 and 0.3 years …
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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 instrumental variables estimation were around eight per cent, while ordinary …
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Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the …
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The level of educational attainment in Mozambique is one of the lowest in the world and primary school completion rate is also very low, not reaching 40 per cent. Using data from the Mozambican Household Budget Survey 2014/15, we study (1) the determinants of school dropout; (2) the variables...
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, also work fewer hours. These results are mostly robust to addressing potential feedback effects between schooling and test …
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With the second largest indigenous population by percentage in Latin America, Guatemala is an important case for understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics. This paper presents new analysis of survey data, allowing for consideration both of indigenous and ladino populations, as...
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operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes …
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). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child … the incidence of child labour. The results are in line with theoretical models that predict that if leisure and schooling … previous evidence that schooling and work decisions are not perfect substitutes among children. …
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