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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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This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female … gender and child outcome matter. …
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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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affect education. The documented negative impact on education of urban ethnic minorities, combined with the improved quality …
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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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education's equalizing effect across high- and low-income countries. Our results are largely robust to changing the underlying …
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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 …We study the trajectory of the gender gap over time and over the life cycle, using a matched employer-employee data … during the period 1994-2015 and the gender earnings gap throughout the life cycle for different birth cohorts. We focus on …
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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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