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Do schools reinforce or reduce learning gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students? Evidence from Vietnam and Peru

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This paper examines whether disadvantaged children learn less than advantaged children when both types of children are enrolled in the same school for two developing countries, Vietnam and Peru. This is done by estimating education production functions that contain two school fixed effects for each school, one for advantaged children and one for disadvantaged children. The paper examines six different definitions of disadvantage, based on household wealth, having low cognitive skills at age 5...

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University of Oxford
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SSD
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International Development
Research group:
Young Lives
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
International Development
Research group:
Young Lives
Role:
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
International Development
Research group:
Young Lives
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Young Lives Publisher's website
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Do schools reinforce or reduce learning gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students? Evidence from Vietnam and Peru
Publication date:
2014-07-01
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9781909403475
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uuid:b12d2a72-81cd-4c99-b3e9-24ac99d08cda
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2016-09-30

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