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education for their school-going girls compared to boys. By disaggregating the total expenditure into fixed and variable … components, we find persistent gender imbalance in educational expenditure where households provide better quality of education …By investigating the educational expenditure of children over the ten years (2000 to 2010), we evaluate whether there …
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, and age are all critical in driving youth unemployment. The Ugandan youth who has some level of education is more likely … to be unemployed compared to those with no education. But the youth that attended post-secondary education is associated … education. While an increase in age appears to increase youth unemployment for females, the married youth have less chances of …
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, especially when parents had lower levels of education, and slightly less occupational mobility. To analyze the returns to … education, earnings equations were estimated using the Heckman selection model. The education of youths and their parents had a … great impact on youths’ earnings, mainly on females. Young women with higher education more than double their earnings …
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Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder unter 5 Jahren in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen wahrscheinlich nicht ihr volles Entwicklungspotenzial erreichen. Um Hindernisse für eine optimale menschliche...
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In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...
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education. We construct 7-year-long early employment trajectories by using a unique longitudinal da taset that combines …
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