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In this paper, we provide evidence that compensatory education policies that target schools in socially deprived areas …-based compensatory education policies, since they tend to avoid schools that enter the RAR program by enrolling in the private sector. We …
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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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role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …
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on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …
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This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a new leftist government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly associated...
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role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …
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weakening of these factors over time. Policies are necessary to improve equality of opportunity in education in Turkey. …
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This paper investigates the educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma adults in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania based on data from the generations and gender surveys and other sources of information. It shows that in spite of a small improvement in the...
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Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
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This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The … indicates that a higher level of education achieved by the population aged 15 and over has improved income distribution in Asia …, while educational inequality, measured by the education Gini index, has a negative effect on income distribution. Higher …
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