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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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-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education …
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I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …
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observables. We find that the gender wage gap is smaller among formal wage employees and the gap decreases as education level … influenced by gender, it is appropriate to account for this double selection process. This study uses the latest household survey … in Ghana to estimate gender wage gaps by correcting for this double selection process. We find that the average total …
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This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender …
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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …
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