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better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we …
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This study examines linkages between inequality, information and communication technology (ICT) and inclusive education … in order to establish inequality thresholds that should not be exceeded in order for ICT to promote inclusive education … order for ICT to promote inclusive education in sampled countries. Other implications in the light of Sustainable …
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implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper credibly identifies the effect …
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children’s education. Second, it is tested if migration of men from households reduces gender inequality in households …” by the migrants. Left-behind households’ expenditure on children’s education and the gendered distribution of these …’ expenditures on children’s education. This gendered distribution is analyzed by estimating the effect of migration on the share of …
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This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of …
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Using a twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper credibly …
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Case studies in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. have found that pay equity (or comparable worth) has reduced the gender …-based wage gap substantially, and results of research on the gender composition of jobs have been used in guiding pay equity … of adopting comparable worth to alleviate race- as well as gender-based wage discrimination. First we report the negative …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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