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Examining Predictors of Gender Parity in Education
Anepska, Veronika; Krotova, Sofiia; Mamchur, Polina; … - 2024
Gender equality is a pivotal aspect of an inclusive and just society. Equal educational opportunities for men and women … the gender parity index. The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship between the gender parity index and … our research, it is possible to form an idea of the further process of increasing gender equality in certain countries …
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Public spending and primary school enrolment: An Autoregressive distributed lag approach
Beri, Parfait; Cochrane, Logan; Syed Fazlullah, Sarah - 2024
This paper delves into the effects of public investment on primary school enrollment in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) over three decades, from 1990 to 2020. Autoregressive distributed lag models are employed to evaluate the long-term influence of public spending on enrollment...
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Does Parent-Teacher Communication Truly Boost Students' School Performance?
Huang, Kaixing; Liao, Yuxi; Luo, Renfu - 2024
Parent-teacher communication has long been regarded as vital for children's academic success. Our theoretical model …
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Discriminating Behavior: Evidence from teachers’ grading bias
Ferman, Bruno; Fontes, Luiz Felipe - 2020
Recent evidence has established that non-cognitive skills are key determinants of education and labor outcomes. However, little is known about the mechanisms producing these results. This paper tests a channel that could explain part of the association between some non-cognitive characteristics...
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Incidence du travail domestique, des caractéristiques de l’école et du ménage sur les résultats scolaires des filles en Côte d’Ivoire
Abou, Pokou Edouard - 2015
The objective of this paper is to highlight the effects of domestic work of girls, school environment and household characteristics on their school results. From a probit model, the analysis indicates that domestic work favours, meaningfully, the fact of repeating a school year for girls....
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Curricula tracking and central examinations: counterbalancing the Impact of social background on student achievement in 36 countries.
Bol, Thijs; Witschge, Jacqueline; Van de Werfhorst, Herman - 2013
Tracked educational systems are associated with a greater social inequality in children’s educational achievement … status on children’s performance. …
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Analysis of Gender Parity for Pakistan: Ensuring Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education
Umar, Maida; Asghar, Zahid - 2017
Considering how much progress has been made in education, and how large an effort is needed to meet gender parity in … ought to set off alerts and prompt a noteworthy scale-up of activities to accomplish SDG 4 and ensuring gender parity … 2030. Projections illustrate that how much additional exertion will be needed to accomplish gender parity. Such a …
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Progressing Pakistan should ensure Quality Education for All
Mamoon, Dawood - 2017
The paper analyses the dynamics of education sector in Pakistan in comparison to other developing countries in larger Asia and Latin America. The lessons of history in these regions suggest that those countries have been able to develop on sustainable basis that have invested in education for...
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The Effects of Mandatory and Free College Admission Testing on College Enrollment and Completion
Vansuch, Mary - 2017
Between the years 2001 and 2015, twenty-three states and the District of Columbia implemented a policy providing mandatory and free college admission exams (ACT or SAT) to all public high school juniors. As such, the policy reduced to zero out of pocket expenses for exam fees, and likely reduced...
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La dinamica dell’offerta di formazione dottorale dopo la riforma Gelmini
Alfano, Vincenzo; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Pinto, Mauro; … - 2021
Abstract (ENG): This paper aims to examine the evolution of doctoral training in Italy after the regulatory interventions related to the so-called Gelmini reform. The analysis is based on data extracted from the Cineca-CercaUniversity website. More precisely, this research examines the number of...
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