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better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we …
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This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …
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children from over 100 countries, to document the gender differences in the context of online learning. We quantify the gender … gaps in effort and relative performance outcomes and analyze whether the gaps differ by the gender of the parent who mainly … supervises the children. Our main results point toward significant gender gaps in the relative performance outcomes in favor of …
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: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …
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This study examines linkages between inequality, information and communication technology (ICT) and inclusive education … in order to establish inequality thresholds that should not be exceeded in order for ICT to promote inclusive education … order for ICT to promote inclusive education in sampled countries. Other implications in the light of Sustainable …
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implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …
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education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …We study the trajectory of the gender gap over time and over the life cycle, using a matched employer-employee data … during the period 1994-2015 and the gender earnings gap throughout the life cycle for different birth cohorts. We focus on …
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The global objective of the paper is to analyze the impact of gender inequality in education on economic growth in the … instability. Therefore, the CEMAC countries must increase their public expenditure on education system and reduce gender … inequality in labor market for better reducing gender inequality in education, and so to promote economic growth. Political …
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