The roles of education in expenditure inequality in Bhutan: an analysis in an urban–rural context
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Keywords
Education; Decomposition of educational Gini; Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition; Hierarchical decomposition of expenditure inequality; Bhutan;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
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