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This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...
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School retention in South Africa and performance in the major school-leaving matric examination are characterised by significant inequalities on the basis of race and socio-economic status. In order to know at what point in the educational trajectory policy interventions and school improvement...
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This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new … efficiency criterion related to the supply and demand sides of education and training policies in Sudan. We provide a new … education (share in enrolment in education) is most probably due to economic reasons (per capita income and poverty rate …
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This paper discusses the education, training and skill development policies in Sudan using a combination of new … efficiency criterion related to the supply and demand sides of education and training policies in Sudan. We provide a new … education (share in enrolment in education) is most probably due to economic reasons (per capita income and poverty rate …
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school system, the ongoing low quality of education acts as a poverty trap by precluding them from achieving the level of … quality of education is attributable to poverty itself as opposed to other features of teaching and management that …
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Africa are high on the country’s development agenda. Much hope is often vested in education as an opportunity for children … conceived of in terms of the human capital model, according to which education improves an individual’s productivity, which in …-economic status (SES) and education, in that it is well known that a student’s SES has an important influence their educational …
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Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School … access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the … education will further lift enrolment, bringing closer the government’s goal of universal elementary education, which comprises …
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's education system, in terms of sources of school funding, expenditure per pupil, and type of parents who are more likely to send … children to privately funded schools. The education regime results from the interplay between households' choices on fertility … and education and the public education provided. No exogenous culturally-based difference is assumed among agents. Low …
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of low-skilled immigrants is large, the education regime tends to become segregated. Wealthy locals are more likely to … choose private schools and vote for a lower tax rate to finance public education. In contrast, high-skilled immigrants tend … education and a reduction in the skill wage premium. …
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I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to …
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