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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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This paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi's development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help governments and multilateral agencies craft inclusive,...
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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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approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education … educational spending; (ii) this bargaining power is associated positively (negatively) with education spending in urban (rural …
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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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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …
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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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greater when considering students from affirmative action programmes and for courses in the field of technology. But the …
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I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...
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