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Young women's transitions from education to the labour market in Ethiopia : a gendered life-course perspective
Admasu, Yeshwas; Crivello, Gina; Porter, Catherine - 2021
We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545484
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Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth : evidence from Bangladesh
Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2016
There are many studies on the effects of conditional cash transfer programmes on enrolment, productivity and poverty reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect. This paper provides new evidence on effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547653
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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?
Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017
We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most remittance-dependent economies in the world. Using data from a three-wave household panel survey conducted in 2007, 2009, and 2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639661
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Impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in a low-income country
Holvio, Anna - 2022
This paper estimates the causal impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in Mozambique, a low-income country where a large share of fourth-graders fail to meet the minimum requirements of literacy and numeracy. I use nationally representative data from the Service Delivery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887965
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Puzzle me this? : the Vietnamese reverse gender education gap
Mergoupis, Thanos; Phan, Van; Sessions, John G. - 2018
identify household and commune characteristics and emphasize how the effects of these characteristics vary by gender. The … gender differences we find suggest that unequal treatment of girls within their households has a negative impact on their … educational attainment and that in the absence of such unequal treatment the reverse gender gap would be even larger. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913253
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379718
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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476468
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Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling : new evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps … explores two potential sources of gender bias: bias in the decision to enrol/keep boys and girls in school; and bias in the … educational expenditure on boys and girls enrolled in school. Our findings are illuminating: gender bias in households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165588
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Smart classrooms and education outcomes : evidence from Rwanda
Nsabimana, Aimable; Nganga, Muthoni; Niyizamwiyitira, … - 2024
In this study, we explore the impact of a smart classroom (SCM) programme on student performance in science subjects in a high-stakes national exam for middle-high school students in Rwanda. To do this, we leverage plausibly exogenous variations in programme exposure induced by the staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014478277
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Public-private co-operation for gas provision in poor neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires : impact on housing improvements and health
Goytia, Cynthia; Pasquini, Ricardo; Sanguinetti, Pablo José - 2011
This study examines the programme Redes Solidarias, a public-private initiative that connected to natural pipelined gas 4,000 households in the Great Buenos Aires Area during 2005. The main features of the institutional framework are described and the main results of an impact estimation...
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