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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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What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behaviour? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can … treatment that involves reminding subjects of their gender. We found that, without priming, there were no statistically … different gender differences in the solidarity game. With priming, however, there was an increased willingness in women to …
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We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through … variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of … mechanisms that induce gender inequality in resource access. …
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-scale development project when playing with other women than in mixed-gender groups, where they contributed at about the same levels as …
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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower …
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Reducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and … Vietnamese men to reflect about gender equality can reduce their gender bias. We randomly selected two groups of husbands and … requested one group to make comments on gender-related laws and another group to write stories about gender equality. We find …
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Participatory community programmes are a potentially important tool for social empowerment and economic development. How do participatory programmes that specifically target women affect community trust and cohesion? This question is important since the longterm success of such programmes might...
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two key channels of transmission, namely education and trade. Thirty-six Sub-Saharan African countries during the period …
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economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …
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This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...
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