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The Universal Provision of Primary Education: Who Benefits?
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Ou, Dongshu – Education Economics, 2016
Few studies have investigated the causal spillover effects of compulsory education on children's siblings. Using a regression discontinuity method, I find that Hong Kong's 1971 free compulsory primary education policy reduced the dropout probability for the eldest siblings of full policy beneficiaries, especially for children in low-income…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Elementary Education, Compulsory Education
Education and Change in Rich, Poor and National Minority Areas in China: Two Decades of Transition. CREATE Pathways to Access. Research Monograph No. 61
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Lewin, Keith M.; Lu, Wang – Online Submission, 2011
This study traces education and change over two decades in three areas, Tongzhou on the periphery of Beijing chosen as one of the richest 300 counties in 1990; Ansai in Yan'an which was one of the poorest 300 counties and a famous base for the 8th Route Army at the end of the Long March, and Zhaojue a poor Yi national minority area in the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries
Access to University Education in Nigeria: A Review
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Agboola, B. M.; Ofoegbu, F. I. – Online Submission, 2010
Demand for university education has increased due to the recent innovations of universal, free and compulsory education at the basic and senior secondary education level. Education has been expanding very rapidly at all levels in Nigeria. However, there are serious problems related to quality, equity, unavailable human and material resources and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Dropout in Primary and Secondary School: A Global Issue and an Obstacle to the Achievement of the Education for All Goals
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Bella, Nicole; Mputu, Hilaire – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Education for All (an international movement of governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the media) set objectives in Jomtien (1990) and reaffirmed in Dakar (2000) that, among other things, work towards all children having access to free, compulsory, good quality primary education by 2015. School dropout may hinder the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Holding Power, Elementary Education, Illiteracy
Education Inequality in Slovakia: The Effects of Early Selection
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Zelmanova, Olga; Korsnakova, Paulina; Tramonte, Lucia; Willms, J. Douglas – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
Like many other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, children in Slovakia are allocated to different types of schools at an early age based upon their perceived aptitude. Part of the selection process includes an attempt to identify those children who are particularly academic-oriented. Primary and secondary education in Slovakia is divided…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, High School Students, Secondary Schools
Dropout in Primary and Secondary School: A Global Issue and an Obstacle to the Achievement of the Education for All Goals
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Bella, Nicole; Mputu, Hilaire – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
In the second of a two-part series, this paper looks at the global spread of school dropout and at the factors that keep elementary school-aged children outside education. In order to have a more complete picture of the dropout problem, it necessary to take into account pupils who do not continue their education beyond primary education or who…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Elementary Education, Students, Compulsory Education