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Gender bias in education during conflict : cvidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517894
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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476468
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Dynamic skill accumulation, comparative advantages, compulsory schooling, and earnings
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2011
the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282223
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College major choice and the gender gap
Zafar, Basit (contributor) - 2009
Males and females are markedly different in their choice of college major. Two main reasons have been suggested for the gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003812568
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Dynamic skill accumulation, comparative advantages, compulsory schooling, and earnings
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2011
the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. -- compulsory schooling reforms ; dynamic skill accumulation … ; comparative advantages ; returns to schooling ; education and growth ; dynamic discrete choice ; dynamic programming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522490
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Reversal of gender gaps in child development : evidence from young children in India
López Bóo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - 2014
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357238
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian - 2011
the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117619
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Gender-Differential Effects of Conflict on Education : The Case of the 1981-1993 Punjab Insurgency
Singh, Prakarsh - 2013
which the conflict affected education, we use a unique historical dataset on the annual expenditure decisions by farmers in … the state of Punjab during 1978-1989. We find a significant reduction in expenditure on education by households with a … of the demand-side channels through which conflict affected education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083152
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian - 2017
-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960276
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School Gender Composition and Academic Performance : Evidence from Transition from Single-Sex to Coeducational Schools
Lee, Jungmin - 2017
We examine how the gender composition of students within schools affects their academic performance. For causal identification, we exploit within-school variation in the gender composition because of policy-driven transitions from single-sex to coeducational schools. In Seoul, South Korea,...
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