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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
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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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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968505
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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-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic … endowments are malleable, for example via policies that target 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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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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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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