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Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine A. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...

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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

inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant … ministry. We find no evidence for a needs-based allocation of aid for education. Female as well as male leaders appear to have …

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The power to choose : gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sharma, Smriti - 2016

approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education … educational spending; (ii) this bargaining power is associated positively (negatively) with education spending in urban (rural …

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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …

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The gender gap, education, and the life cycle profile in the Brazilian formal labour market

Machado, Cecilia; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Pinho Neto, … - 2018

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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Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos; Tarp, Finn - 2017

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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The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market : evidence from a public federal university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2020

greater when considering students from affirmative action programmes and for courses in the field of technology. But the …

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The impacts of studying abroad : evidence from a government-sponsored scholarship programme in Brazil

Conceição, Otávio Canozzi; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; … - 2023

' 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 unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

Barreto, Yuri; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2022

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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