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Birth order effects on education : insights from low- and middle-income countries

Mendolia, Silvia; Stavrunova, Olena; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024

Birth order effects in developed countries are consistently negative. That is, the later a child is born within a family, the worse their adult economic outcomes relative to their earlier-born siblings are. However, studies of birth order effects in emerging countries are scarcer and yield...

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Integration of new-age technologies in education system to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in emerging economies

Gupta, Vijay Prakash - In: Fostering sustainable businesses in emerging economies …, (pp. 259-280). 2024

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Child work and child labour : the impact of educational policies and programmes in low- and middle-income countries

Emezue, Chuka; Pozneanscaia, Cristina; Sheaf, Greg; … - 2023

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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries

Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …

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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity

Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … of education in the international context is rather a data problem related to the use of enrolment and literacy … Barro-Lee educational attainment dataset, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on …

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The gender gap in mathematics : evidence from a middle-income country

Bharadwaj, Prashant; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Hansen, David; … - 2015

Using a large administrative data set from Chile, we find that, on average, boys perform better than girls in mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears to increase with age (it doubles between fourth grade...

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