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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …
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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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This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
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<p>Dennis Soltys reviews the second volume of a five-part series that will further comprise health, infrastructure, and governance. The first volume, on poverty, was reviewed by this author in the No. 2, 2010, issue of the journal of Poverty & Public Policy.</p>
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combat climate change. This paper looks at how past technology choices opened a pathway to prosperity in Asia that now …
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This study examines the impacts of multiple agricultural technology adoption on poverty in rural Amhara region … market, distance from zonal town, and remittances are the major determinants of agricultural technology adoption decisions …
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This study examines the impacts of multiple agricultural technology adoption on poverty in rural Amhara region … market, distance from zonal town, and remittances are the major determinants of agricultural technology adoption decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184234