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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India
Kumar, Hemanshu; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016
Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the … inequalities in India by looking within these groupings, and studying differences between the individual jatis that comprise these … numerically larger Scheduled Caste communities witnessed greater improvements in educational levels compared to smaller ones, this …
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The size of the middle class and educational outcomes : theory and evidence from the Indian subcontinent
Prettner, Klaus; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2018
to the third (middle) caste ("sudra"). Using this IV strategy, our empirical results support a positive effect of a …
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Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries
Gradín, Carlos - 2016
six Asian countries using demographic surveys. We first estimate a composite wealth index as a proxy for economic status … poverty gap, which is as high as 50 percentage points or more in some specific cases in Nepal, Pakistan, or India. The gap in … (e.g., India, Nepal, and Pakistan), in regional development (e.g., the Philippines) and the large urban-rural gap (e …
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Historical African ethnic class stratification systems and intergenerational transmission of education
Funjika, Patricia - In: Economic history of developing regions 38 (2023) 1, pp. 89-116
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Can we select the right peers in Indian education? : evidence from Kolkata
Frijters, Paul; Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan - 2016
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The changing contours of intergroup disparities and the role of preferential policies in a globalizing world : evidence from India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Ramachandran, Rajesh - 2016
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial...
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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
status, language proficiency, immigrants? time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a …
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Migrants at school: educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria
Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020
As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
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