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Spatial inequality of opportunity in West Africa
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
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- 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:
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1471-0498
- Paper number:
- 935
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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1169362
- Local pid:
- pubs:1169362
- Deposit date:
- 2021-03-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Luke Milsom
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 the Author(s).
- Notes:
- Revised version August 2021.
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