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Gender disparities in education raise many questions for governments and civil societies. There are many factors that … contribute to the gender gap in education. In Eritrea, gender disparities persist in the enrolment rates between boys and girls … educational development in the country. It identifies and analyses various factors that cause gender inequality in education …
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education, and attempting to maximize revenue under a minimum profit constraint. Optimality conditions, based on demand … elasticities are derived. Using a dataset of 398 southeastern public two and four year higher education institutions we estimate … the price elasticity of demand for both online and traditional education. Utilizing a panel framework, we find that online …
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extent of private education. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, Russia …, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries, Professor Tooley gave a snapshot of private education that was unknown to many … readers; contrary to expectations, the private education sector was large in the countries studied, was innovative, and was …
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spend comparatively few years in formal education, and the quality of the education they receive is lower than in other OECD … countries. This paper discusses the performance of education services up to the upper secondary level. It assesses both the … efficiency (outcome for money invested) and the equity of the system and shows that the education system has to be improved …
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Discontinuities in markets and technology as well as issues of performance are roiling the field of higher education … Education" is proposed. With clearly laid out causal linkages, the model shows how the sub-components of a communication …
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The global education goals, with their emphasis on the quantitative indicators such as the enrollment rates or the … number of years of schooling, may have led to too narrow a focus in linking education to human capital development. While … many low-income countries have made remarkable progress towards achieving universal primary education, there are serious …
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education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …Using a national representative sample in China from three largest on-going surveys, this study examines the effects of … education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in …
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development of contemporary China. Five variables, i.e. number of the illiterate and self-educated, primary school enrolment …, secondary school enrolment, university and college enrolment and the education length were chosen based on empirical studies …, especially the Solow model. Quantitative data were analyzed across China’s twenty-two provinces, five autonomous regions, and …
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Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this … inequalities at national, regional and sector level. For this reason, these studies underlined the relevant role of education in … education distribution. In particular, we exploit the Theil index decomposition properties to distinguish between distributive …
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The overall goal of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing assessment of China's rural labor markets. To meet this … education. Second, we will then seek to examine if education in different time periods - the late 1980s, the early 1990s and the … mid 1990s - can be associated with increasing access to off-farm jobs. Finally, we will examine how returns to education …
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