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achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822283
1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240234
While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … education in the international context appears to be a data problem related to the inappropriate use of enrolment and literacy … attainment, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on agricultural productivity which is robust …
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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … of education in the international context is rather a data problem related to the use of enrolment and literacy … Barro-Lee educational attainment dataset, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274514
1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688399
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than … by economic push factors and social status effects. Only at the highest education levels do we see evidence of pull …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653984
achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261798
Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301427
1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329060