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Unobserved Household and Community Heterogeneity and the Labor Market Impact of Schooling : A Case of Indonesia.

Behrman, J.R.; Deolalikar, A.B. - Department of Economics, University of Washington - 1990

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THE WEALTH MODEL: EFFICIENCY IN EDUCATION AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE FAMILY.

BEHRMAN, J.R.; POLLAK, R.A.; TAUBMAN, P. - Department of Economics, University of Washington - 1990

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gender Differences in the Returns to School Enrollment rates in Indonesia.

Deolalikar, A.B. - Department of Economics, University of Washington - 1993

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Human Resource Development and Poverty in the Philippines

Le, Ai Lam Thi - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2005

educational capital. However, in education, the rich and the poor are separated by two different educational divisions …--private and public--and of high quality and low-quality education. Poor children encounter lack of access to quality education due … to a high dropping out rate at an early age and going to public schools that offer low quality education. The lack of …

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Policy Study on the National and Local Government Expenditures for Millennium Development Goals, 2000-2005

Manasan, Rosario G. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2008

the eight MDGs. The MDGs include eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; universal primary education; gender equality … certain aspects of all of the seven quantifiable goals, namely: Goal 1 (poverty and hunger), Goal 2 (education), Goal 3 …

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Benefit Incidence Analysis of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines: A Methodological Note

Cuenca, Janet S. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2008

in the analysis as applied on government spending on education in the Philippines. …

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Measuring Segregation

Frankel, David M.; Volij, Oscar - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2007

We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation with any number of ethnic groups. These axioms are motivated by two criteria. The first is evenness: how much do ethnic groups’ distributions across schools differ? The second is representativeness: how different are...

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An Axiomatization of the Multigroup Atkinson Segregation Indices

Frankel, David M.; Volij, Oscar - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008

This paper gives an axiomatic characterization of the multigroup Atkinson indices of segregation relying entirely on ordinal axioms. We show that the Symmetric Atkinson index represents the unique ordering that treats ethnic groups symmetrically, that is invariant to population growth rates that...

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Efficiency in Improving Health and Education Outcomes: Provincial and State-Level Estimates for Argentina and Mexico

Jayasuriya, Ruwan; Wodon, Quentin - In: Estudios Económicos 22 (2007) 1, pp. 57-97

efficiency of provinces and states in improving health and education outcomes. Stochastic frontier estimation methods are used to …

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The impact of parental death on school enrollment and achievement: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

Case, Anne; Ardington, Cally - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2005

We analyze longitudinal data from a demographic surveillance area (DSA) in KwaZulu-Natal, to examine the impact of parental death on children’s outcomes. We find significant differences in the impact of mothers’ and fathers’ deaths. The loss of a child’s mother is a strong predictor of...

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