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Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic 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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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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I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...
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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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I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …
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-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education …
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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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