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include macroeconomic management, human capital, trade, governance, and labour and capital markets. Given strong …
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, with Syria having achieved near universal primary education enrolment and a high rate of completed secondary education. Due … important education-related questions for the international community as a whole, like the educational background of Syrians … Syrian education in the broader global context. It aims to provide detailed information that other researchers, policymakers …
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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 … in education, gender inequality in educational attainment has consistently been declining over time. The same consistent …
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based on census and largescale survey data from 13 European countries, collected in the Cohort Fertility and Education … education. The results suggest that the changes in the educational composition of the population were only marginally related to … decreased: the differences between women of medium/high education and low educated women diminished. However, the childlessness …
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-demographic determinants, disaster experience and education are found to be key predictors of individual disaster preparedness. This paper … explores the pathways through which education enhances disaster preparedness and the interplay between education and experience …: the Philippines and Thailand. While education raises the propensity to prepare against disasters, we further find that the …
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The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
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Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...
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present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in …
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This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...
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