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Determinants of primary school enrollment in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Gönsch, Iris - Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und … - 2010

Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual's job and earnings …

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Remember When It Rained: The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment

Zimmermann, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...

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Political Inclusivity and the Aspirations of Young Constituents: Identifying the Effects of a National Empowerment Policy

O'Connell, Stephen D. - Department of Economics, Graduate Center - 2014

Using two dimensions of exogenous geographic variation in exposure to 1992 reforms that introduced seat quotas for women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This...

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Family Income and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Price Shock in Cote d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suﬀered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis...

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Family income and child outcomes: the 1990 cocoa price shock in Cote d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - DIAL - 2008

We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suffered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis...

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Role of Education and Skill Development for Sustainable Development

Chakrabarty, Aritra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

workforce. The education system churns out students that are not immediately employable and skill up-gradation on the job is low … outcomes are not favoring the expectations of the labor force. While 56 percent of the higher education institutes are devoted … percent, seven percent and six percent of total institutes respectively. The dominance of general education has prevented the …

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Does the availability of secondary schools increase primary schooling? Empirical evidence from northern Senegal

Goensch, Iris - Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und … - 2013

education. These future benefits in turn heavily depend on a child's prospects to attend secondary school. If private returns to …

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La défense du droit à l'éducation passe par celle du service public.

Herrera, Rémy - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2007

). Education is one of the keys to successful development strategies and a means of realizing the objectives of socialization …This working paper dealing with the right to education is at the origin of a written statement presented by the Centre …-commercial status of education, of scientific knowledge and of cultural productions. …

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School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Verner, Dorte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper aims at identifying the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in these neighborhoods, which covered both...

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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India

Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...

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