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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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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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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic …. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings were markedly to the advantage of women. A large … part of the population was lifted out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education and school construction reforms …
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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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female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower … expanding women's education and facilitating the access of married women to the emerging labour market as the most effective …
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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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This study analyses intergenerational class mobility in China as a case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South. Drawing on national representative surveys collected between 2010 and 2015 in China, the analysis focuses on absolute and...
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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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the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most …-term education and earnings of individuals living in affected municipalities. We show a piece of evidence that the increase in child …
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