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This study investigates men's attitudes toward women's education in Afghanistan, focusing on primary, secondary, and … toward women's education are predominantly negative, notably in rural areas. However, women's contributions to household … income significantly mitigate these negative attitudes, particularly toward secondary education, followed by tertiary …
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areas with high income and parental education. More than half of tutoring centers are in areas in the top quintile of income …. Third, even conditional on income and parental education, private tutoring centers tend to locate in areas with many Asian … for this form of private educational investment mimics phenomena observed in other spheres of education and family life …
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Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes …
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career paths and shift their focus from occupations that require university education towards those that require a high …
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Birth order effects in developed countries are consistently negative. That is, the later a child is born within a family, the worse their adult economic outcomes relative to their earlier-born siblings are. However, studies of birth order effects in emerging countries are scarcer and yield...
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education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …
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This paper investigates the relationship between extreme weather conditions and the risk of flooding-induced harvest failure in Nigerian agriculture using a probit model. I use household-level survey and gridded weather data to exploit weather variation across time and space. Risk of harvest...
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Study abroad migration is the fastest growing international migration flow. However, the college completion rates of students from low-income countries are often modest in OECD countries, raising the hypothesis that these migrants are poorly informed about the costs and benefits of their...
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