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We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage subsidy aimed at reducing youth unemployment. We show that attempts to estimate firm-level treatment effects via conditional difference-in-differences are likely to fail when...
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In this study, we investigate the relationship between education reform, institutional legacies of inequality, and … relations after the 1993-2005 civil war. The post-war government prioritized education to previously marginalized regions and … secondary education from 2006 to 2018. Our difference-in-differences analysis shows a dramatic shift in test scores, with the …
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This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically … examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and … education. Using a difference-in-differences model, the study finds that the provision of comprehensive sex education in schools …
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South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost of hiring young workers. We make use of anonymized tax administrative data from the 2012-2015 tax years to examine the effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms...
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education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …
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This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower … expanding women´s education and facilitating the access of married women to the emerging labour market as the most effective …
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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 … the woman opposes her partner’s violence, the higher her education and body mass index, among female children, and in …
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could substantially reduce inequalities in education. …
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The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
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