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Inequality, ethnicity, and social cohesion

McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - 2017

How do changes in socio-economic inequality between ethnic groups affect interethnic ties in a divided society? I analyse the evolution of cross-ethnic marriages in a society affected by violence along ethnic boundaries and make three principal findings. First, as inequality between ethnic...

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Indirect rule: armed groups and customary chiefs in eastern DRC

Henn, Soeren J.; Marchais, Gauthier; Mugaruka, Christian M. - 2024

This paper leverages a novel panel dataset covering the histories of 306 chiefs and 256 episodes of village governance and taxation by armed groups in 106 villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to analyse the relationship between the governance of armed groups and the...

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Youth, violence, and sustaining peace

Justino, Patricia - 2023

violent conflict are not uniform. This study assesses the differential effects of violent conflict on young people's education …

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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: Further evidence of a subnational 'diversity dividend'

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; … - 2014

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...

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Children and the youth in rural Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol - 2015

Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...

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On the fertility transition in Africa: Income, child mortality, or education?

Mveyange, Anthony - 2015

present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in …

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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 … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education: What can be learned?

Riddell, Abby - 2012

This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …

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Education from the bottom up: UNICEF's education programme in Somalia

Williams, James - 2013

state collapse. Initially, education and other government services came to a standstill. With the halt of fighting in some … education and other critical services. Since then, slow progress has been made in providing educational services to increasing … regional and national administrative systems to continue development of the education system. UNICEF played a central role in …

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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation

Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are...

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