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affect education. The documented negative impact on education of urban ethnic minorities, combined with the improved quality …
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We investigate whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in children's education in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and … education attainment and cognitive ability. The gap in educational attainment and cognitive ability among ethnic children is …-Blinder decomposition, we find that the main contribution to the gap in education between children from small ethnic groups and large ethnic …
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turn observed in the persistence mechanism. The study finds that for India, persistence mechanisms for education are indeed … account for endogeneity in the father's education. …
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-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
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points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …
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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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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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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...
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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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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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