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Slavery, Education, and Inequality [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Abstract We investigate the effect of slavery on the current level of income inequality across US counties. We find that a larger proportion of slaves over population in 1860 persistently increases inequality, and in particular inequality across races.
BERTOCCHI, Graziella, A. Dimico
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Gender equality and girls education: Investigating frameworks, disjunctures and meanings of quality education [PDF]

, 2012
The article draws on qualitative educational research across a diversity of low-income countries to examine the gendered inequalities in education as complex, multi-faceted and situated rather than a series of barriers to be overcome through linear input–
Aikman S, Aikman S, Arnot M, ASPBAE and UNGEI, Bandyopadhyay M, Barber L, Budlender D, Chaudhury N, Croft A, Geeves R, Herz B, Hickling-Hudson A, Lewin KM, Lewis M, Marshall H, Mitchell C, Morrell R, Ramachandran V, Rao N, Rao N, Sieder R, Stromquist N, Tomasevski K, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNICEF and UNGEI, Unterhalter E, Unterhalter E, Verspoor A, Wood J   +29 more
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Intergenerational educational trajectories and inequalities in longevity: A population-based study of adults born before 1965 in 14 European countries

SSM: Population Health, 2023
Background: While educational gradients in longevity have been observed consistently in adult Europeans, these inequalities have been understudied within the context of family- and country-level influences. We utilized population-based multi-generational
Cornelia Wagner, Stéphane Cullati, Stefan Sieber, Tim Huijts, Arnaud Chiolero, Cristian Carmeli   +5 more
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Educational inequalities in diabetes mortality across Europe in the 2000s : the interaction with gender [PDF]

, 2015
To evaluate educational inequalities in diabetes mortality in Europe in the 2000s, and to assess whether these inequalities differ between genders. Data were obtained from mortality registries covering 14 European countries.
Bopp, Matthias, Borrell, Carme, Costa, Giuseppe, Deboosere, Patrick, Eikemo, Terje Andreas, Espelt, Albert, EURO-GBD-SE Consortium, Gnavi, Roberto, Hoffmann, Rasmus, Kulhanova, Ivana, Kulik, Margarete, Leinsalu, Mall, Mackenbach, Johan P., Martikainen, Pekka, Menvielle, Gwenn, Rodriguez-Sanz, Maica, Rychtarikova, Jitka, Vandenheede, Hadewijch   +17 more
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Education, Growth, and Income Inequality [PDF]

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002
Estimates of the e¤ect of education on GDP (the social return to education)have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return. We present a simple explanation that combines two ideas: imperfect substitution between worker types and endogenous skill biased technological progress.
Teulings, C., van Rens, T.
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Macroeconomic changes and educational inequalities in traffic fatalities in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

Scientific Reports, 2021
This study examined trends and inequalities in road traffic accident (RTA) mortality in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Finland in relation to large-scale macroeconomic changes in the 2000s. Educational inequalities in RTA mortality
Andrew Stickley, Aleksei Baburin, Domantas Jasilionis, Juris Krumins, Pekka Martikainen, Naoki Kondo, Mall Leinsalu   +6 more
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What are the causes of educational inequality and their evolution over time? Evidence from PISA [PDF]

, 2015
This paper provides evidence on the sources of differences in inequalities in educational scores in European Union member states, by decomposing them into their determining factors.
Oppedisano, V., Oppedisano, V., Turati, G., Turati, G.   +3 more
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Le Carnet d’expériences et d’observations au cycle 2 : un outil d’apprentissage scientifique pour l’élève ?

Recherches en Éducation, 2016
Since the 2000s, the pupils from kindergarten to secondary school have to use a new tool: the notebook of experiences and observations (CEO) which should develop learning, simultaneously improving the command over the language, group life, and the ...
Catherine Boyer, Cora Cohen-Azria, Abdelkarim Zaid   +2 more
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What are the causes of educational inequalities and of their evolution over time in Europe? Evidence from PISA [PDF]

, 2010
This paper provides evidence on the sources of differences in inequalities in educational scores in European Union member states, by decomposing them into their determining factors.
Oppedisano, Veruska, Turati, Gilberto, Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)   +2 more
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Le composite dans les albums de littérature de jeunesse et ses effets différenciateurs : un exemple en cycle 2

Recherches en Éducation, 2016
Ongoing research carried out by Circeft-Escol shows that today’s schools use more composite learning materials, which are linked to school literacy, but have differentiating effects..
Patricia Richard-Principalli, Marie-Françoise Fradet   +1 more
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