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The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market: Evidence from a public federal university in BrazilCan students’ rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement?...
Affirmative action Brazil EducationJournal Article
Educational Opportunities in Indonesia: Are Factors Outside Individual Responsibility Persistent Over Time?This article is on early view/in press, available on open access. Not all sources of inequality in educational achievements are fair. But how strong and persistent is the burden of unequal opportunities that each person carries on in their life?...
Education Inequality education policyJournal Article
Cash Transfers and Gender Differentials in Child Schooling and Labor: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants ProgrammePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Children Education LaborWorking Paper
China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobilityThe United States and China are the world’s largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world’s economic output...
Intergenerational Mobility equality of opportunity EducationResearch Brief
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Inequality in Education and Wealth in Tanzania: A 25-Year PerspectivePart of Journal Special Issue Horizontal inequality in the Global South
Education Equality and inequality WealthJournal Article
Does Horizontal Inequality Matter in Vietnam?Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal inequality in the Global South
Viet Nam Horizontal inequality Ethnic relationsWorking Paper
Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in AfricaThis paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries...
Colonialism Education EthnicityJournal Article
Is the Education of Local Children Influenced by Living near a Refugee Camp?: Evidence from Host Communities in RwandaThis article studies the extent to which educational services and schooling outcomes of local children are influenced by the presence of a refugee camp in or near their community...
Refugees Impact of refugees Host communitiesJournal Article
Gender Inequality in Employment in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
Gender Employment EducationSeminar
Inclusive Growth in Mozambique seminar series: Octávio Pedreira from the World Bank presents the latest data on Education sector in MozambiqueOn 2 May 2019, Octávio Pedreira, a specialist from the World Bank will present at the Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, on ‘Education in Mozambique: Results from the 2018 Service Delivery Indicator Survey’. The presentation...
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David Evans presents at the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique seminar seriesDavid Evans will give a presentation on 25 April at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, on ‘Addressing the global learning crisis: can improved teacher practices help?’. The presentation will be in Portuguese. The event is part of...
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The Impact of School Feeding Programmes on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Burkina FasoFood for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s...
Enrolment School attendance GenderWorking Paper
The gender gap, education, and the life cycle profile in the Brazilian formal labour marketWe study the trajectory of the gender gap over time and over the life cycle, using a matched employer-employee data from the formal labour market in Brazil...
Earnings inequality Linked employer-employee data EducationWorking Paper
Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality: A microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in GhanaThe level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a key determinant of better livelihoods and poverty alleviation...
Education School reform microsimulation