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. The study finds that there is clear evidence of rapid expansion of education, and younger students all over China are … urban-bias hypothesis that is often suggested as the main source of income inequality. – China ; inequality ; education …
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Education is the basic requirement and the 'Fundamental Right' of the citizens of a nation. While Higher Education is … important, the Elementary Education system serves as the base over which the Super-structure of the whole education system is … qualitative aspects of School Education System in India in recent years. It is observed that complete Literacy has not been …
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challenge by raising education spending and expanding the capacity of the education system in key areas such as pre …-primary education and increasing participation in education beyond the age of 16. Nevertheless, performance on international tests of … cognitive ability remains significantly below the standards of the best performing OECD countries and the education system seems …
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closer to where they attended their Teacher Education Program (TEP) and prefer to work in urban areas. Moreover, candidates …
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differences in the proportion of individuals of each sex graduating at the several levels of formal education. The proportion of …
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the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most …-term education and earnings of individuals living in affected municipalities. We show a piece of evidence that the increase in child …
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. The objective of this paper is highlighting the importance of quality of education to explain the wide income disparities … education quality and efficiency, this study aims to investigate which factors are the most significant to determine elementary … (SAEB) for 4th grades of elementary education. The estimation method is the hierarchical regression, which, in this work …
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This paper uses cross-national data to examine the effects of different dimensions of decentralization on the efficiency of educational policies in OECD countries. The results show that the autonomy of subnational governments, both on the expenditure and revenue sides of their activities, is...
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Long-term trends in academic performance and spending are valuable tools for evaluating past education policies and … informing current ones. But such data have been scarce at the state level, where the most important education policy decisions … an unprecedented perspective on American education inputs and outcomes over the past 40 years …
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This paper shows that austerity-induced spending cuts harmed student performancein standardized national tests. To identify this relationship, we use cross-municipalityvariation in the timing of eligibility for the Italian Domestic Stability Pact as an exogenous shifter of local public spending....
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