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Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005

Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...

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Race, Sex, and the Neglected Risks for Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stillwaggon, Eileen - In: Feminist Economics 14 (2008) 4, pp. 67-86

Global AIDS policy has failed to stop the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa because prevention programs are limited by an unscientific theory of disease causation, which assumes that differences in HIV prevalence among populations are adequately explained by variation in rates of unsafe sexual...

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...

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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...

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Culture, feedback, and gender in education

Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …

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Numeracy and unemployment duration

Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019

Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...

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Gender equity in education : helping the boys catch up

Paqueo, Vicente B.; Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2019

, Filipino males were somewhat more educated than females. Now the males are lagging behind the females and the education gender … paper argues that today gender equality advocacy should go beyond the stereo-typical focus on girls' education and pay more … attention to issues that are hurting boys’ education. Failure to pursue win-win strategies to address gender bias in education …

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The persistence of the gender earnings gap : cohort trends and the role of education in twelve countries

Bar-Haim, Eyal; Chauvel, Louis; Gornick, Janet C.; … - 2018

view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women … demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … education continues. …

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students: A story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - In: IZA Journal of Migration 6 (2017) 2, pp. 1-18

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills....

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 1, pp. 59-96

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