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economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be … effect is significant in Argentina and Colombia and nil in Mexico, where there has been no such expansion. We find that a …
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Looking at the decentralized provision of public education in a middle-income country, this paper estimates the impact … development. In the year 2002, Colombian municipalities were entrusted with autonomous management of their local public education … based solely on a population threshold. I estimate the impact that autonomy has had on education performance across the …
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levels of human capital, typically measured through education, earn more on average and are privy to greater levels of upward … change over time. Nevertheless, other factors may have an incremental effect over education, namely cognitive ability and the …
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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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The gender gap in education has been a significant concern for Moroccan policymakers and researchers, but the … percentage is around 20% for the math gap. Pre-school attendance, maternal education, schools, and schools' characteristics are …
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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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Using data from the 2018 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, our study investigates the impact of education on … household income in rural Vietnam. Both mean and quantile regression analyses were employed to analyze the impact of education …. We found that education has a positive effect on the household income after controlling for various factors in the models …
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