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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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-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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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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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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points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …
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children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …
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This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female …
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This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically … examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and … education. Using a difference-in-differences model, the study finds that the provision of comprehensive sex education in schools …
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A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 both reflects and exacerbates existing inequalities. However, there are significant gaps in this research area with respect to 'horizontal' or group-based inequalities in Global South countries. Lack of group-disaggregated data often contributes. In...
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sustained or significant desegregation. Occupations remain highly segmented by race, with blacks disproportionally holding low …
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