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2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …
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deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …
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Although several theories of interethnic conflict emphasize ties across group boundaries as conducive to ethnic coexistence, little is known about how such ties are formed. Given their integrative potential, I examine the establishment of cross-ethnic marital ties in a deeply divided society and...
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Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in developed and developing countries. This paper...
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The paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate homogenous and heterogeneous private returns to...
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-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … reduction in labour income inequality and the introduction of noncontributory public transfers schemes. …
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developing countries, possibly because parents might be forced to keep only children with higher abilities in school, reinforcing … inequality among children within the household. …
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This study focuses on estimating the returns to education in non-farm self-employed businesses in the Indian context, using nationwide individual- and household-level data provided by the India Human Development Survey for the year 2011/12. Given that different studies have used different types...
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This study uses data collected from school students in Mumbai to investigate how they perceive subjective expected …. Despite lower actual returns to education in the labour market, students from Other Backward Castes and Scheduled Castes and …
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/16 Namibia Income and Expenditure Survey. The paper employs recentred influence function regression to analyse the impact of … disadvantaged groups, such as women and individuals from lower-income households, by improving educational quality and supporting …
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