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Primary Education: Barriers to Entry and Bottlenecks to Completion
Albert, Jose Ramon G.; David, Clarissa C. - 2012
To improve the country's standing on achieving the Millennium Development Goals on Education and Education for All targets, it is important to examine various economic and sociocultural demand-side factors that hinder children from attending and completing primary school, as well as maximizing...
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Want export diversification? : educate the kids first
Jetter, Michael; Ramírez, Andrés - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 53 (2015) 4, pp. 1765-1782
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The tertiary tilt : education and inequality in the developing world
Gruber, Lloyd; Kosack, Stephen - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 54 (2014), pp. 253-272
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Impact of duration of primary education on school outcomes : a cross-country analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez-Reynosa, Jessica H. - 2013
Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children in elementary school one additional grade of primary...
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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools
Braga, Michela - 2019
Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...
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"Low profile" or entrepreneurial? : gender, class, and cultural adaptation in the global microfinance industry
Radhakrishnan, Smitha - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 264-274
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Transactional fish-for-sex relationships amid declining fish access in Kenya
Fiorella, Kathryn J.; Camlin, Carol S.; Salmen, Charles R. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 323-332
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Is gender diversity profitable? : evidence from a global survey
Noland, Marcus; Moran, Tyler; Kotschwar, Barbara - Peterson Institute for International Economics - 2016
discriminatory attitudes toward female executives, and the availability of paternal leave. The results find no impact of board gender …
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Gender and corruption : a reassessment
Debski, Julia; Jetter, Michael - 2015
This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … cast doubt on a general, global relationship between gender and corruption. …
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Gender gaps in education
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2019
This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first focuses on gender differentials in the historical period that … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …
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