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Admission is Free Only If Your Dad is Rich! Distributional Effects of Corruption in Schools in Developing Countries
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
In the standard model of corruption, the rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's education, reflecting higher ability to pay. This prediction is, however, driven by the assumption that the probability of punishment for bribe-taking is invariant across households. In many...
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Long-Term Impacts of Alternative Approaches to Increase Schooling : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2018
This paper reports on a randomized experiment to investigate the long-term effects of a primary school scholarship program in rural Cambodia. In 2008, fourth-grade students in 207 randomly assigned schools (103 treatment, 104 control) received scholarships based on the students' academic...
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Global Inequality in a More Educated World
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
In developing countries, younger and better-educated cohorts are entering the workforce. This developing world-led education wave is altering the skill composition of the global labor supply, and impacting income distribution, at the national and global levels. This paper analyzes how this...
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Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2019
The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement at a specific point in time. Using repeated cross-section surveys for five European...
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Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error
Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017
When measuring inequality of opportunity, researchers usually opt to eliminate within-type variation. Provided that in practice it is impossible to observe all circumstances, this implies that the researcher estimates a lower bound of the true level of inequality of opportunity. By using data...
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Egypt : Inequality of Opportunity in Education
Ersado, Lire - 2017
The paper examines the levels and trends in access to education and educational outcomes across generations of Egyptian youth. Examination of three cohorts of individuals aged 21 to 24 (born between 1964 and 1967, 1974 and 1977, and 1982 and 1985) shows that access to education has substantially...
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility : Theory and Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2020
mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …
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Gender, Geography and Generations : Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-Reform India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
India experienced sustained economic growth for more than two decades following the economic liberalization in 1991 … paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It … evidence shows that family background plays a strong role; the estimated sibling correlation in India in 2006 is higher than …
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Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
delivery can promote development outcomes. A central plank of public policy for improving primary education services in India …
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