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Education inequality in Mongolia: Measurement and causes
Publication date: July 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 68Author(s): Otgontugs Banzragch, Suguru Mizunoya, Munkhireedui BayarjargalAbstractUsing data from the LSMS 2002 and HSES 2012 in Mongolia, we have estimated the educational Gini coefficients by years of schooling for adults and by school attendance rate for children. The Gini coefficient measured by using years of schooling for the population aged 19 and above decreased from 0.274 in 2002 to 0.178 in 2012. For adults of both genders, educational inequality has declined while the Gini coefficients are consistently higher in rural ar...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - May 21, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Correlates of children’s travel to school in Johannesburg-Soweto—Evidence from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) study, South Africa
Publication date: July 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 68Author(s): Julia de Kadt, Alastair van Heerden, Linda Richter, Seraphim AlvanidesAbstractPrior work on data obtained from the urban Johannesburg-Soweto based Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort has documented extensive levels of travel to school in the early post-apartheid era (1997–2003), with fewer than 20% of children attending the age-appropriate school closest to their home (de Kadt et al., 2014). These extremely high levels of schooling mobility impose costs on children and families, as well as the educational system more ...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - May 19, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Association between completing secondary education and adulthood outcomes in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda
Publication date: July 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 68Author(s): Amita Chudgar, Youngran Kim, Alyssa Morley, Jutaro SakamotoAbstractIn this paper we examine descriptively the relationships between completed secondary education and social, informational, and economic adulthood outcomes of 15–24 year old males and females in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. We find that completing secondary education is associated with higher media access and somewhat better health related knowledge. However we also find that completing secondary education is not necessarily associated with a gre...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - May 12, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Publication date: May 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 67Author(s): (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - May 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Joined-up government? Insights from education during DFID’s first decade
Publication date: July 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 68Author(s): Carew B.W. TreffgarneAbstractThe establishment of DFID and the emergence of a new policy of international development counts as one of the major achievements of the first ten years of the Labour government, 1997–2007.Clare Short’s leadership brought a commitment and a vision to DFID’s emerging identity, but support from Blair and Brown was also crucial in carving out a decisive role for the new Department nationally and internationally. ‘Joined up government’ was an important strategy embraced by the Labour Go...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - May 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research