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Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have focused on cash transfers, but …-five children in Turkey. I find gains in health and human capital among age-eligible children of both sexes. However, educational …
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Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have focused on cash transfers, but …-five children in Turkey. I find gains in health and human capital among age-eligible children of both sexes. However, educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949417
This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of … enrollments have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substantial regional … constraints causing the large gender gap in Turkish education and the covariates related to lower overall educational levels may …
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This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of … enrollments have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substan- tial regional … constraints causing the large gender gap in Turkish education and the covariates related to lower overall educational levels may …
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This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies …
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We use administrative data to measure sibling spillovers on academic performance before and after Tanzania's introduction of Free Secondary Education (FSE). Prior to FSE, students whose older siblings narrowly passed the secondary school entrance exam were less likely to go to secondary school...
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