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Gender disparities in education raise many questions for governments and civil societies. There are many factors that … contribute to the gender gap in education. In Eritrea, gender disparities persist in the enrolment rates between boys and girls … educational development in the country. It identifies and analyses various factors that cause gender inequality in education …
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The paper analyses the relationship between the popular Barro and Lee (2001) ‘Average years of Schooling’ with income inequality, wage inequality, and income deciles and income percentiles for the sample of developed and developing countries. The results suggest that countries where students...
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In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
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policy prescriptions is to expand the supply of education within the economy. Through utilisation of socio-economic profiles … progressive public higher education establishments, the data indicates that, between1987- 2010, the Brazilian education system … illustrates how, during the period analysed, less than 35% of UNICAMP students attended only public education; and that moreover …
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residence, ethnicity, maternal education, poverty and in some cases gender diminish over time through concerted policies and …
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In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113407
The evidence of higher income inequality leading to increased HIV prevalence through channels of coercion and migration has emerged. This coupled with previously established macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS connotes reverse causality that is likely to develop a cyclical effect. The plausible...
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that inequality in education as measured by education Gini is negatively associated with average years schooling, implying … that higher education attainments are more likely to achieve equality in education. Moreover, a clear pattern on an … education Kuznets curve exists if standard deviation of schooling is used. Furthermore, gender gaps are related to education …
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context of education inequality. The econometric results from a cross-section analysis of 23 provinces in the period of 1996 … distribution of income, economic policies should be more targeted at not only more education but also equal access to education. …
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This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate framed in Robert Brenner’s classic critique of World Systems and Dependency Theory. It was originally presented to the July 2007 conference of the International...
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