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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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higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a … quality, by gender, geography and parental socio-economic status. Survey and census data measure attainment and access, while … a grade-3 Portuguese test and 2007 SACMEQ tests measure quality. While the gender gap in access has been closed, large …
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Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …
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in education, gender inequality in educational attainment has consistently been declining over time. The same consistent … education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between …
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could substantially reduce inequalities in education. …
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points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …
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/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …
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Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador …, having (private) tertiary education is more important for women than men. In contrast, the effect of having a spouse who … incomes across gender, with around 80 per cent of individuals in the top 10 per cent group remaining in this group from year …
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Using data from various rounds of the nationally representative NSSO survey between 1988 and 2012, we first construct national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in inequality in India but only since 2004. We also...
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