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education's equalizing effect across high- and low-income countries. Our results are largely robust to changing the underlying …
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education. In the pursuit of this aim, the extension of access to primary education was achieved relatively successfully, given … management, as being factors with a major influence on the poor quality of education in primary schools. …
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force participation over the period, led by increases in women's education and shifts in the occupational structure of the …
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move up the wage ladder. Education plays an important role, as it increases the probability of transitioning into a better …
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outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …
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outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic …. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings were markedly to the advantage of women. A large … part of the population was lifted out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education and school construction reforms …
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intensity are associated with lower wages. While the return to education has become the largest contributor to wage inequality …
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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …
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I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …
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