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(english) In this paper, we are interested in the effect of birth status, being born out-of-wedlock or in wedlock, on survival chance before two years old of siblings of same gender in Senegal. The analysis is based on nationally representative data, those from the Demographic and health survey,...
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their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …
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, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …
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This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education – its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children’s human capital levels. The analysis …
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to achieve universal primary education by 2015, one of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Using … not enrolled in school in 2005-06. Assuming a gradual and steady increase in enrolment, education simulations show that … population education gap over the years. Thus rapid increase in enrolment is the desired option. Otherwise the large education …
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education to assess the potential for skill imbalances to emerge. Based on our formal projections, we see little likelihood of …
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Intergenerational mobility in education and income is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices …
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A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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the state language affect linguistic minority students’ demand for education. The reform obligated linguistic minority …
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radical effect on the transformation of education and training in all sectors demonstrating how pervasive ICT has become with …
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