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Promoting parental involvement in schools : evidence from two randomized experiments

Barrera, Felipe; Gertler, Paul J.; Nakajima, Nozomi; … - 2020

experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …

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Mama knows (and does) best : maternal schooling opportunities and child development in Indonesia

Hasan, Amer; Nakajima, Nozomi; Rangel, Marcos A. - 2020

-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …

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Contrasting experiences : understanding the longer-term impact of improving access to preschool education in rural Indonesia

Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Kinnell, Angela; Maika, Amelia; … - 2019

. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …

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Returns to education in the Russian Federation : some new estimates

Melianova, Ekaterina; Parandekar, Suhas; Patrinos, … - 2020

This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018. Although the returns to schooling increased for a time, they are now much lower than the global average. Private returns to education are three times greater for higher education...

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Returns to Education in the Russian Federation : Towards Evidence Based Decision Making with Fiscal and Private Returns to Education

Melianova, Ekaterina - 2020

will serve government stakeholders as well as individual students …

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Returns to Education in the Russian Federation : Some New Estimates

Patrinos, Harry - 2020

This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation. Private returns to education are three times greater for higher education compared to vocational education, and the returns to education for females are higher than for males. Returns for females show an...

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Returns to Education in the Russian Federation : Does Depreciation Explain Some Recent Trends?

Melianova, Ekaterina - 2020

This paper explores the topic of depreciation of human capital as a possible explanation for observed trends in the returns to education in the Russian Federation. Estimates of depreciation are presented for various sample groups. Depreciation first decreased and then increased in the period...

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Returns to Education in the Russian Federation : Variation Across Regions and Implications for Policy Development in Priority Regions

Melianova, Ekaterina - 2020

This paper uses regionally representative household survey data to determine the rates of return to education in different regions. Returns show a wide dispersion together with the labor market context. The paper's policy recommendations will be particularly helpful to support human capital...

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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills in Early Primary Grades : Evidence from Rural Indonesia

Nakajima, Nozomi - 2016

This paper examines gender gaps in cognitive and non-cognitive skills among a sample of more than 10,000 children … deviations) of the Early Development Instrument, a finding consistent with research from high-income countries. Decomposition …

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