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Teacher expectations matter
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Gershenson, Seth; Kang, Kyungmin - 2016
We develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies both the distribution of biases in teacher expectations and the impact of those biases on student outcomes via self-fulfilling prophecies. The identification strategy leverages...
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The Lost Human Capital : Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa - 2019
In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
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Child beliefs, societal beliefs, and teacher-student identity match
Eble, Alex; Hu, Feng - In: Economics of education review 77 (2020), pp. 1-17
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Essays on education and family economics
Schwientek, Caroline - 2016
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Military subsidization of human capital and gender stratification in the US economy
Saxon, Tyler - In: Review of radical political economics 53 (2021) 2, pp. 250-265
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Why women are progressive in education? : gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites - 2012
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A model of gender inequality and economic growth
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016
This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women … economies, and numerous policy experiments are conducted to investigate how various aspects of gender inequality are related to … the growth performance of the economy. The analysis shows that improving gender equality can contribute significantly to …
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Gender bias and child labor in LDCs
Kumar, Alok; Underhill, Emma - 2014
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Why women are progressive in education? : gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites - In: Economics of education review 32 (2013), pp. 196-206
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Determinants of labour market gender inequalities in Cameroon, Senegal and Mali : the role of human capital and fertility burden
Kuépié, Mathias - In: Canadian journal of development studies 37 (2016) 1, pp. 66-82
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