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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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-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
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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 …
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impact of displacement, language barriers, poor health, limited education, limited knowledge of or access to services, and … discrimination. Using data from Canada's 2011 National Household Survey and 2009 Longitudinal Immigration Database, this paper adds …
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We investigate whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in children's education in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and … education attainment and cognitive ability. The gap in educational attainment and cognitive ability among ethnic children is …-Blinder decomposition, we find that the main contribution to the gap in education between children from small ethnic groups and large ethnic …
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points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …
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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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turn observed in the persistence mechanism. The study finds that for India, persistence mechanisms for education are indeed … account for endogeneity in the father's education. …
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emergence of a transnational oligarchy. -- globalization ; education ; elites ; meritocracy ; recruitment ; social mobility …
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Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the impact of cutting class sizes on skills acquisition. Considerably less attention has been given to the extent to which peer effects, which refer to class composition, also may...
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