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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare
Mundle, Sudipto - 2018
This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over 50 years. Apart from differences in initial conditions and income levels, the nature of the state has also been an important determinant of...
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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement: Evidence from India
Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
state of Rajasthan. Across the years 2014, 2016, and 2017, Rajasthan merged many of its grade 1-5 schools with grade 6 …-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education … government orders on consolidation and administrative data on schools, I rule-out that consolidation had a negative impact on …
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Inequality in education: Evidence for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including...
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The success of learnerships? Lessons from South Africa's training and education programme
Rankin, Neil; Roberts, Gareth; Schöer, Volker - 2014
Vocational training programmes, like South Africa's learnership programme, which combine classroom learning and on-the-job training seem like the type of intervention which can create skills, get young people into jobs quicker, and reduce youth unemployment. This paper uses a longitudinal...
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Characteristics and determinants of child malnutrition in Mozambique, 2003-11
Cardoso, José; Allwright, Lindsey; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
Child malnutrition continues to be a serious impediment to development both at the individual and national levels in many developing countries. In Mozambique, despite a high and sustained GDP growth, child malnutrition has been decreasing at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this...
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Improving parenting practices for early child development: Experimental evidence from Rwanda
Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2020
This paper investigates the short- and medium-term impact of a randomized groupbased early child development programme targeting parents of children aged six to 24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. The programme engaged parents through sessions that included a radio show and...
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Maternal employment and children's outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia
Dervisevic, Ervin; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Perova, Elizaveta - 2021
Is maternal employment beneficial or harmful for child development? Maternal employment generates income, which is needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time spent with children, which is also a critical input into...
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Fragmenting the family? The complexity of household migration strategies in post-apartheid South Africa
Hall, Katharine; Posel, Dorrit - 2018
The disruption of family life is one of the important legacies of South Africa's colonial and apartheid history. Families were undermined by deliberate strategies implemented through the pass laws, forced removals, urban housing policy, and the creation of the homelands. Despite the removal of...
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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
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Gender priming in solidarity games: The Philippine context
Tacneng, Ruth Cadaoas; Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2021
What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behaviour? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can insure each other against the risk of losses. In the utility function, priming is represented as the 'change in weight' given to the other player's payoff. We test this...
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