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), disputes these findings. The authors conclude that while treatment of children known to be infected increases weight by 0.75 kg … from studies of children known to be infected. The hypothesis of a common zero effect of multiple-dose MDA deworming on … effect on child weight is 0.148 kg (95% CI: 0.039, 0.258). The implied average effect of MDA on infected children in the full …
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' children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of over 6,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality … rate fell by 22% (17 deaths per 1000 live births) for children of treatment group individuals. We find that a combination …
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-quarter normal compensation levels. For students randomly assigned to stay with existing classes, test scores did not increase … significantly, despite a reduction in class size from 82 to 44 on average. In contrast, scores increased for students assigned to be … existing teachers. A governance program that empowered parents within PTAs reduced both forms of capture. The best contract …
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The human capital of young and old workers are imperfect substitutes both in production and in on-the-job training. This helps explain why capital does not flow from rich to poor countries, causing instantaneous convergence of per capita output. If each generation chooses its human capital...
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We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …
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textbook provision has a large impact on test scores. Disaggregating the results by students? initial academic achievement … suggests a potential explanation for the lack of an overall impact. Textbooks increased scores for students with high initial … academic achievement and increased the probability that the students who had made it to the selective final year of primary …
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This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem sets. Blocked practice sessions focused on a single skill at a time. Interleaved problem sets alternated between...
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short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …
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This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university were randomly assigned roommates … students who drink frequently are particularly influenced by frequent-drinking roommates, substance-free housing programs could … possibly even grows over time. In contrast, students' college GPA is not influenced by roommates' high school grades, admission …
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To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones …. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower … the distribution. We propose a simple model nesting these effects. We compare 61 Kenyan schools in which students were …
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