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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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Returns to education in Azerbaijan : some new estimates

Garcia Moreno, Vicente; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2020

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns...

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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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The changing pattern of returns to education : what impact will this have on inequality?

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2019

The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...

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Returns to investment in education : the case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

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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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Economic crises and returns to university education in middle-income countries : stylized facts and COVID-19 projections

Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Shafiq, M. Najeeb - 2020

This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle-income …

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