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This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the … following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education … education quality in the lowest quantile of poor education quality. With the exception of corruption-control, the other …
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This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the … following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education … education quality in the lowest quantile of poor education quality. With the exception of corruption-control, the other …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...
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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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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … of higher earnings and wage rates. The focus is on identifying causal effects of education and on mechanisms via which …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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