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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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points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …
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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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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …
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This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …
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greater when considering students from affirmative action programmes and for courses in the field of technology. But the …
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' human capital and interest in science and postgraduate education studies through a substantial increase in scholarships for … increasing approved student enrolment in postgraduate education programmes in Brazil. Even though the programme could have …
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Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their … co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of … minority areas induce violence. To examine this question, we leverage the spatial and temporal variations in education …
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