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Affirmative action with no major switching: Evidence from a top university in Brazil
Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Santos, Alei; Severnini, … - 2022
Affirmative action in higher education may lead to mismatch, a situation where students benefiting from preferential admission struggle with their college-level work because of poor precollege academic preparation. In the United States, those students can switch majors if they underperform in...
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Inequality of opportunities among ethnic groups in the Philippines
Reyes, Celia M.; Mina, Christian D.; Asis, Ronina D. - 2017
This paper contributes to the scant body of literature on inequalities among and within ethnic groups in the Philippines by examining both the vertical and horizontal measures in terms of opportunities in accessing basic services such as education, electricity, safe water, and sanitation. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943757
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Cultivating change: the long-term impact of forced labour in Mozambique
Bove, Margherita; Caeiro, Rute Martins; Coelho, Rachel; … - 2024
participation, more progressive attitudes towards gender norms, and an increased presence of women in leadership positions. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548577
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Inequality of opportunity in educational achievements: Cross-country and intertemporal comparisons
Luongo, Patrizia - 2015
This paper evaluates fairness in educational achievements through the ordered pair (WEEOp, IEOp) whose components provide: (i) A measure of social welfare which accounts for the achievement of less-advantaged pupils and (ii) a synthetic index of inequality in educational opportunities. Students'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418578
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Schooling inequality, returns to schooling, and earnings inequality: Evidence from Brazil and South Africa
Lam, David; Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray - 2015
Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in developed and developing countries. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418619
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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon: 2005-10
Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education increased monotonically. Yet incremental returns were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418626
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Income inequality in Latin America: Recent decline and prospects for its further reduction
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2015
The paper reviews the extent of the income inequality decline that took place in Latin America in 2002-10 and then focuses on the factors that may explain such decline. These include a lowered skill premium following an expansion of secondary education among the poor, and the adoption of more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418648
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Multiple pathways to gender-sensitive budget support in the education sector: Analysing the effectiveness of sex-disaggregated indicators in performance assessment frameworks and g...
Holvoet, Nathalie; Inberg, Liesbeth - 2013
In order to correct for the initial gender blindness of the Paris Declaration and related aid modalities as general and … sector budget support, it has been proposed to integrate a gender dimension into budget support entry points. This paper … studies the effectiveness of (joint) gender working groups and the integration of sex-disaggregated indicators and targets in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333661
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Children's endowment, schooling, and work in Ethiopia
Dendir, Seife - 2013
I investigate the relationship between children's endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on tests of cognitive skills/ability. A child's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333674
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Gender inequality, female leadership, and aid allocation: A panel analysis of aid for education
Kleemann, Linda; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2014
The aid allocation literature has neglected gender-specific needs for aid. We assess the hypothesis that gender … gender differences in the allocation behaviour. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343228