How well do South African schools convert grade 8 achievement into matric outcomes?
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Keywords
South Africa; Socio-economic Status; Education; Educational Achievement; Educational Inequality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2011-06-11 (Africa)
- NEP-EDU-2011-06-11 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2011-06-11 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2011-06-11 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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