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Using quantile regression analyses, this study examines gender gaps in mathematics, science, and reading in Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Jordan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Qatar, Tunisia, and Turkey among 15 year-old students. The analyses show that girls in Azerbaijan achieve as well as boys in mathematics...
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Numerous studies show that access to clean water reduces child mortality and morbidity, but little work has been done on the consequences for schooling and child labor. The effects are theoretically ambiguous because healthier children can go to school or go to work. I examine the effect of...
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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was an extremely destructive event in Aceh, Indonesia, killing over 160,000 people and destroying infrastructure, homes, and livelihoods over miles of coastline. In its immediate aftermath, affected populations faced a daunting array of challenges. At the population...
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, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …
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contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America … numeracy as measured by the age-heaping strategy for long-run economic growth. In a variety of specifications, numeracy … mattered quite strongly for growth patterns around the globe. …
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indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index … insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students’ PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender … inequality index was the single most statistically significant explanatory variable for both OECD and non-OECD countries …
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We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of individual income, using data from individuals of European ancestries. We find that ≈10% of the variance in occupational wages...
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influence inequality and economic growth through tertiary school education and lifelong learning. These main findings are …This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … and economic growth. It focuses on a sample of 48 African countries from 2004 to 2014. The empirical evidence is based on …
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We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as parental background or ethnicity matter across all...
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