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Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka . A theme of convergence is central to the narrative. Slaves were … Emancipation, black children continued to face many obstacles in acquiring education. In addition to their relative poverty and …
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majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race … development, using labour market survey data from 1999 to 2015. Despite its history, aggregate racial educational and occupational …
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The Reconstruction era of American history (c. 1866-1877) saw widespread efforts to educate recently freed people - efforts which were at least partially abandoned in the post-Reconstruction era. This project examines the impact of childhood exposure to Reconstruction on long-run outcomes for...
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differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with … college and post-graduate education, in particular among recent birth cohorts, have not yet been addressed in the literature … college and post-graduate education for birth cohorts 1931-1980. Our findings show a significant postponement of the first …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … other measures of development such as life expectancy and GDP per capita. Fifth, in the youngest cohorts, women have more …
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … 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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. Under reasonable assumptions, the model predicts that the spending share on education increases if the middle class becomes … larger such that the size of the middle class has a positive impact on education. We test the relationship empirically by … determinant of female education than male education and that the effect of the middle class on education is more pronounced in …
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of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative … find that implementing comparable worth would appreciably narrow the race- and gender-based wage gaps and significantly …
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