A review of the role of urban agriculture in the sustainable city discourse

GA Azunre, O Amponsah, C Peprah, SA Takyi… - Cities, 2019 - Elsevier
The debate on the role of urban agriculture in the sustainable city discourse remains
unresolved in the conventional literature. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to review …

Socioeconomic status and academic outcomes in develo** countries: A meta-analysis

SW Kim, H Cho, LY Kim - Review of educational research, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic
status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English …

Intergenerational education effects of early marriage in sub-Saharan Africa

M Delprato, K Akyeampong, M Dunne - World Development, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the evolution of the effects on educational inequality of early marriage
by looking at the impact of whether women had married young on their children's schooling …

Parents, quality, and school choice: Why parents in Nairobi choose low-cost private schools over public schools in Kenya's free primary education era

SS Zuilkowski, B Piper, S Ong'ele… - Oxford Review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Low-cost private schools (LCPS) are widespread in Kenya, particularly in urban areas. This
study examines the reasons that parents send children to fee-charging schools in a context …

Urban-rural achievement gap in low-and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education

L Betancur, P Miller, E Votruba-Drzal - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2024 - Elsevier
In low-and middle-income countries, rural children rank below their urban counterparts on
academic achievement. Given the importance of early childhood education (ECE) in …

Learning inequality in Francophone Africa: School quality and the educational achievement of rich and poor children

RJ Gruijters, JA Behrman - Sociology of Education, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Influential reports about the “learning crisis” in the global South generally pay insufficient
attention to social inequalities in learning. In this study, we explore the association between …

Intra-household gender disparity in school choice: Evidence from private schooling in India

S Sahoo - The Journal of Development Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores gender inequality within households in the decision of private versus
government school choice in India. Using a three-period longitudinal dataset on rural …

[PDF][PDF] Digitalization in teaching and education in Kenya: Digitalization, the future of work and the teaching profession project

PL Barasa - 2021 - 41.89.205.12
Even as digitalization generates opportunities to increase accessibility to education in
Kenya, the digital divide has continued to grow larger for groups that have benefited least …

No harmless child labor: The effect of child labor on academic achievement in francophone Western and Central Africa

J Lee, H Kim, DE Rhee - International Journal of Educational Development, 2021 - Elsevier
This study empirically examines the effect of child labor on academic achievement in 10
francophone Western and Central African countries. The data were taken from the …

Mobile money, risk sharing, and educational investment: Panel evidence from rural Uganda

R Tabetando, T Matsumoto - Review of Development …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the impact of the rapidly expanding mobile banking service “mobile money” on
rural households' ability to smooth investment in schooling after a negative shock. We find …