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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224585
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458771
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344240
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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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"Greening" gender equity : microfinance and the sustainable development agenda
Warnecke, Tonia - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 49 (2015) 2, pp. 553-562
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376241
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Gender perspective on entrepreneurial intentions and innovation cognitive style: cross-country study
Pejić Bach, Mirjana; Sasvari, Peter; Merkac Skok, Marjana - 2012
number of studies it has been found that there are unresolved issues regarding gender and entrepreneurial intensions and … gender and innovative cognitive style. Therefore, the goal of our paper is to explore gender perspective on entrepreneurial …. Logistic regression revealed that entrepreneurial intentions are determined by country of origin, gender, attitudes toward …
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An experiment on corruption and gender
Rivas, M. Fernanda - In: Bulletin of economic research 65 (2013) 1, pp. 10-42
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Providing easy access to cross-country comparative contextual data for demographic research : concept and recent advances of the generations & gender programme contextual database
Caporali, Arianna; Klüsener, Sebastian; Neyer, Gerda; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715739
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Escaping the mythical beast : gender mainstreaming reconceptualised
Eerdevijk, Anouka van; Davids, Tine - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 26 (2014) 3, pp. 303-316
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