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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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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower …
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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …
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higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a … quality, by gender, geography and parental socio-economic status. Survey and census data measure attainment and access, while … a grade-3 Portuguese test and 2007 SACMEQ tests measure quality. While the gender gap in access has been closed, large …
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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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affect education. The documented negative impact on education of urban ethnic minorities, combined with the improved quality …
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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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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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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 …We study the trajectory of the gender gap over time and over the life cycle, using a matched employer-employee data … during the period 1994-2015 and the gender earnings gap throughout the life cycle for different birth cohorts. We focus on …
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