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Spatial inequality of opportunity in West Africa

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In this paper, I quantify and study the consequences of, spatial inequality of opportunity in Benin, Cameroon, and Mali. To do this, I first estimate the causal effect of growing up in each locality in each year on the probability a child completes primary education, using a movers design. On average, moving to a one standard deviation better location at birth increases a child’s probability of completing primary school by 15.0 percentage points, but the extent to which place matters varies o...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Role:
Author
Publisher:
University of Oxford Publisher's website
Series:
Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
Article number:
935
Place of publication:
Oxford
Publication date:
2021-03-23
ISSN:
1471-0498
Paper number:
935
Language:
English
Pubs id:
1169362
Local pid:
pubs:1169362
Deposit date:
2021-03-26

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