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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
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in sectors which have been less severely hit by the crisis. Focusing on the education sector, it seems that the demand … for education increases because individuals try to circumvent the tight labour market, while the supply of education … early to make a definite statement because the full impact of the crisis on the education sector is still to come. …
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This paper investigates how framing manipulations affect the quantity and quality of decisions. In a field experiment in elementary schools, 1.377 pupils are randomly assigned to one of three conditions in a multiple-choice test: (i) gain frame (Control), (ii) loss frame (Loss) and (iii) gain...
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …
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We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and … parental education and family structure during childhood to male-female and brother-sister differences in teenage outcomes …'s education, which has not been examined in previous studies, is particularly important for sons. However, we find a very …
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Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …
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