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Peer effects identified through social networks: Evidence from Uruguayan schools
de Melo, Gioia - 2014
This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392391
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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters
Qian, Nancy - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943762
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Gender Gaps in Education
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2019
This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179917
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Gender Bias in Education during Conflict: Evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Singh, Prakarsh - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525023
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Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka - 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/10011532393
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Educational inequality in Mozambique
van der Berg, Servaas; da Maia, Carlos; Burger, Cobus - 2017
higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a … the woman opposes her partner’s violence, the higher her education and body mass index, among female children, and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151179
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömar; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523472
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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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Gender gaps in education
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2019
This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130053
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581726