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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023
How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....
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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi : a micro-simulation
Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi …
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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...
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Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance : a multilevel approach
McNabb, Kyle - 2017
This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics … in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost … unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin remains virtually ignored in the literature surveying school attendance …
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Private beats public : a flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers
Brandt, Kasper - 2018
This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with … unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both … their primary and lower secondary school exam records, allowing three out of four assumptions imposed in standard value …
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Elementary education in India versus China : guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
implementation, evaluation, and needed recalibration of the management of school clusters; (3) teacher recruitment, training, and …
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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject of considerable research in the analysis of inequality. Such intergenerational linkages are anticipated to come from two sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and...
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Are you what you consume? : impact of food, soft drinks, and coffee on cognitive and non-cognitive test scores
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2019
Cognitive and non-cognitive tests are key factors in many aspects of economics, especially within labour market analysis. Non-cognitive tests and personality traits are increasingly used, as these are found to be as critical as cognitive abilities for labour market outcomes, while they might be...
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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?
Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017
2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls' school attendance differs markedly by age. School attendance of young … remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … improves school attendance of young and teenage girls, but reduces school attendance of young women (ages 18-22). We also find …
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Explaining gender differences in preference for self-employment among tertiary graduates in Ghana
Ajayi, Kehinde; Anyidoho, Nana Akua - 2017
We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana, we find that males have a stronger preference for...
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