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explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …
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This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … influence inequality and economic growth through tertiary school education and lifelong learning. These main findings are …
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of residential segregation and local school supply. For instance, districts with prominent provision of private education …
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This study investigates the role of financial access in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on … inequality in 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014. Lifelong learning is conceived and measured as the combined … knowledge gained from primary through tertiary education while the three educational indicators are: primary school enrolment …
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receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …
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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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We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … wages for each additional year of education obtained in a US sample. Thus, the implications of genetic endowments are … malleable, for example, via policies targeting education. …
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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...
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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