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Beautiful people earn more. Surprisingly, this premium is larger for men than for women and is independent of the degree of customer contact. Overlooked is the possibility that beauty can influence college admissions. We explore this potential academic contributor to the labor market beauty...
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The paper analyses the dynamics of education sector in Pakistan in comparison to other developing countries in larger … sustainable basis that have invested in education for all and also ensured quality by allocating sufficient funds to all levels of … education. …
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ABSTRACT. We study the three-yearimpact of a private tuition-free middle school on the academic outcomes of poor students. Several features of the treatment school fit with innovative paradigms that have deliveredsuccessful outcomes in poor urban areas. Our research design exploits the excess of...
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translating into actual learning, the question regarding the true value of education remains unanswered. Can the use of …, there is shockingly very little evidence on basic education curricula effectiveness in East Africa. Twaweza East Africa has … adapted the ‘Surveys of Enacted Curriculum’ SEC framework to analyze basic education curricula effectiveness in the region. In …
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: average abilities (47.6 %), high abilities (30.1 %), and low abilities (22.3 %). Our results also show that maternal education …
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between education and labour earning inequalities by using 2014 … Integrated Labour Force Survey data for Tanzania. The quantile regression method is applied to compute returns to education at … of marginal returns to education across earning distributions; and, the estimated coefficients are higher at the top of …
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Many countries encourage universities to increase the ethnic and socio-economic diversity of their student bodies, for example, through affirmative action policies. We use unique administrative data for all undergraduate degree students entering English universities between 2008 and 2010 to...
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In an effort to reduce the gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), policymakers often propose providing women with close mentoring by female scientists. This is based on the idea that female scientists might act as role models and counteract negative...
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This paper sheds light on the microfoundations of reduced-form returns to education. Specifically, we ask: are more … advanced higher education degrees associated with increased earnings within employers or higher average pay across employers …
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In an effort to reduce the gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), policymakers often propose providing women with close mentoring by female scientists. This is based on the idea that female scientists might act as role models and counteract negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015265285