Working paper
Emergence and evolution of learning gaps across countries : panel evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
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There are substantial learning gaps across countries on standardised international assessments. In this paper, I use unique child-level panel data from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam with identical tests administered across these countries to children at 5, 8, 12 and 15 years of age to ask at what ages do gaps between different populations emerge, how they increase or decline over time, and what the proximate determinants of this divergence are. I document that a clear pattern of stoch...
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- Reviewed (other)
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Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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+ Department for International Development (DFID)
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Funding agency for:
Singh, A
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R8544
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Department for International Development
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Bibliographic Details
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- Young Lives Working Paper
- Paper number:
- 124
- ISBN:
- 9781909403383
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2014-10-14
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