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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 heightened threat of ethnic mobilization. This study...
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Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
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This paper estimates the causal impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in Mozambique, a low-income …
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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education … results. However, the class allocation has no impact on employment and income. …
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middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of human capital and endowments and simple frameworks for guiding the … summary of what we know and do not know about these links in low- and middle-income countries. It discusses determinants of … parental human capital and endowments on social mobility in low- and middle-income countries and a discussion of gaps in the …
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Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … labour market. While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during … this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and …
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The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent … of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or …
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Rising levels of income inequality and tight government budgets have spurred discussions in many developing nations … about how to appropriately tax high-income earners. In this paper, we study taxpayer responses to an increase in the top … identification design. We establish that treated taxpayers strongly reduce their reported taxable income in response to the tax …
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This paper aims to assess the extent to which top earners in Ecuador were affected by the COVID-19 crisis compared to other segments of the population. Our analysis uses administrative data for individuals affiliated to social security between January 2019 and December 2021. We identify the top...
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discrimination. Using data from Canada's 2011 National Household Survey and 2009 Longitudinal Immigration Database, this paper adds …
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