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initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within …
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Strategic incentives may lead to inefficient and unequal provision of public services. A prominent example is school admissions. Existing research shows that applicants "play the system" by submitting school rankings strategically. We investigate whether applicants also play the system by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377100
initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254237
Strategic incentives may lead to inefficient and unequal provision of public services. A prominent example is school admissions. Existing research shows that applicants "play the system" by submitting school rankings strategically. We investigate whether applicants also play the system by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286645
Attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent … analyzes differences in improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare … attendance declines with rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008488965
initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013023
surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229835
I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d … debate in this country. Various hypotheses concerning the evolution of returns to education and labour demand are tested. The … direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284873
? How do these human capital decisions impact on inequality? To give quantitative answers to these questions, I build an … inequality. High mortality and population growth rates are shown to produce comparatively little investment in human capital …, flat earnings profiles and low inequality, both within and across cohorts. …
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two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves to be …
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