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Mete, Cem – Economics of Education Review, 2004
Faced with the evident impossibility of providing free or significantly subsidized secondary and higher education to all, many poor and middle income countries choose to educate only those students who are most promising, using public examinations as means of distributing scarce resources. This paper investigates the inequality implications of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Dropouts, Selective Admission