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that improving the access of poor households to better education is expected to increase their income and reduce inequality …Using data from the 2018 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, our study investigates the impact of education on … household income in rural Vietnam. Both mean and quantile regression analyses were employed to analyze the impact of education …
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(generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct …
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income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low …
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those whose education stopped at high school. However, for individuals whose family income during high school was below 1 … prevalence and robustness of these differential returns to education across race and gender, finding that they are driven by …
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What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage … differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types … of public policies. We argue that public education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of “education …
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This study examines linkages between inequality, information and communication technology (ICT) and inclusive education … in order to establish inequality thresholds that should not be exceeded in order for ICT to promote inclusive education … affect inclusive education. As a main policy implication, the established inequality thresholds should not be exceeded in …
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. Under reasonable assumptions, the model predicts that the spending share on education increases if the middle class becomes … larger such that the size of the middle class has a positive impact on education. We test the relationship empirically by … determinant of female education than male education and that the effect of the middle class on education is more pronounced in …
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
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those whose education stopped at high school. However, for individuals whose family income during high school was below 1 … prevalence and robustness of these differential returns to education across race and gender, finding that they are driven by …
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more advantaged families. Many countries have tried to reduce this inequality through publicly provided preschool. Evidence … on the potential of these programs to reduce inequality in child development is now quite strong. Long-term studies of …
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