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Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties: A Story of Increased Gender Inequality?

Tarozzi, Alessandro; Mahajan, Aprajit - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2005

We establish some new interesting stylized facts on the changes in boy versus girl nutritional status in India during the nineties, a period of rapid economic growth. Our analysis is based on the comparison, over time and across genders, of the distribution of z-scores calculated for height and...

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Chapter 56 The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries

Glewwe, Paul; Miguel, Edward A. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3561-3606). 2007

Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most less developed countries also complete far fewer years of schooling, and learn less per year of schooling, than do children in developed countries. Recent research has shown that...

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Setting an example? : spillover effects of Peruvian magnet schools

Bedoya, Mariel; Gonzaga, Bruno; Herrera, Alejandor; … - 2019

In this paper we use a Multi-Cutoff Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design to evaluate spillover effects of students enrolled into Peruvian public magnet schools, Colegios de Alto Rendimiento (COAR), on educational outcomes of younger students in their schools of origin. Using administrative data...

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Setting an example? Spillover effects of Peruvian magnet schools

Bedoya, Mariel; Gonzaga, Bruno; Herrera, Alejandor; … - 2019

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Islam and Female Education : Evidence from Individual-Level Data

Hajj, Mandana; Panizza, Ugo - 2003

This paper uses individual-level data from Lebanon to test whether there is a difference between the education gender gap of Muslims and Christians. The paper starts by observing that, in Lebanon, the education gender gap completely disappears for cohorts born after the mid 1950s. The paper...

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Gender differentials in maths test scores in MENA countries

Badr, Menshawy; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2012

This paper investigates gender inequality of academic achievement using mean and quantile decomposition analysis in eight selected MENA countries. We use data from TIMSS 2007 to decompose the test scores gap between boys and girls at the eighth grade. There is a mixed picture of gender...

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Determinants of educational attainment in MENA

Badr, Menshawy; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2012

This study examines the determinants of educational outcome in eight selected MENA countries. The complicated structure of the TIMSS data has been considered carefully during all the stages of the analysis employing plausible values and jackknife standard error technique to accommodate the...

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Child Poverty, Demographic Transition and Gender Bias in Education in India : Household Data Analysis (1993-94 and 2004-05)

Chaudhri, Dharam Pal - 2011

This paper begins by highlighting some key characteristics of the demographic transition and child education and their relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS surveys in 1993-94 and 2004-05. Although total fertility...

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Foundational mathematics and reading skills of Filipino students over a generation

Igarashi, Takiko; Suryadarma, Daniel - 2021

Children around the world largely rely on the formal educational system to teach them foundational mathematics and reading skills. The inability of an educational system to do so may indicate it has structural constraints. In this paper, we take advantage of three rounds of a nationally...

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Two decades of structural transformation and dynamics of income equality in indonesia

Dartanto, Teguh; Zheng Wen Yuan, Edith; Sofiyandi, Yusuf - 2017

and inequality in Indonesia by applying Theil's L decomposition (both static and dynamic) to the National Socio … been seen in other developing countries, Indonesia has experienced an agriculture-service transition, before the industry … sector has matured. Moreover, the Inverted U Kuznet curve exists in Indonesia. Inequality will increase in tandem with an …

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