Sökning: "Educational Attainment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 137 uppsatser innehållade orden Educational Attainment.

1. 1. The Role of Language of Instruction: The Case of Morocco

   D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Författare :Emma Hamre; Yuki Kanayama; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Language of Instruction; Mother Tongue; Educational Attainment; Gender Gap; Intergenerational Transmission;

   Sammanfattning : This paper explores the differential and intergenerational effects of Morocco's 1983 language policy that changed the language of instruction for most subjects in grades 6 to 12 from French to Classical Arabic. Although the policy has faced ongoing criticism over four decades, the plausible heterogeneous effects of the policy on marginalized groups and its intergenerational impact have yet to be investigated in the literature. LÄS MER

3. 2. Urban förslumning i utvecklade länder: En komparativ analys av de ekonomiska faktorerna bakom förslumning i USA och särskilt utsatta områden i Sverige.

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :William Alestam; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Urban decay; Particularly vulnerable areas; Income; Employment rate; Real estate; Education; Regression analysis.; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : This paper aims to analyze economical factors behind urban decay, also referred to as slums, in The United States and particularly vulnerable areas in Sweden. The purpose with this paper is to conclude whether or not urban decay in the U. LÄS MER

4. 3. Unconditional cash transfers to single mothers effective for child education? – Using a historical policy experiment

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Linnea Karlsson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Unconditional cash transfers; needs-based cash grants; welfare targeting; human capital development accumulation; skill formation technology; regression kink design;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I examine whether unconditional cash transfers to poor femaleheaded households have an effect on children’s educational attainment. Using a historical Swedish child allowance policy that targeted unconditional cash transfers to widow mothers with an income below a poverty threshold, I lay out a credible identification strategy, to test the hypothesis with a regression kink design. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Effect of a Universal Primary Education Reform on Gender Attitudes in Uganda

   C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Författare :Emma Bergman Karlsson; Klara Holmer; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design; Two-Stage Least Squares; Gender Attitudes; Universal Primary Education; Uganda;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines whether greater access to primary school education for girls and a decreased gender gap in primary school education affects gender attitudes, by studying a Universal Primary Education reform in Uganda that eliminated primary school fees. We conduct a Two-Stage Least Squares regression where we use exogenous variation in exposure to the reform as an instrumental variable to estimate the effect of educational attainment on gender attitudes. LÄS MER

7. 5. Assessing The Relationship Between Social Networks And Integration In The Labour Market In Sweden: A Case Study Of Somali And Bosnian Second-Generation Immigrants In Växjö

   Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Författare :Bahati George; [2023]
   Nyckelord :integration; immigrants; social networks; social capital;

   Sammanfattning : The integration of immigrants has been a significant area of research, focusing on aspects such as employment, housing, and education for newly arrived community members. In recent years, scholarly attention has increasingly turned toward social networks and their influence on immigrant integration into the labor market of the host country. LÄS MER