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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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the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …
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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
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-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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Providing at least basic education to all children especially those coming from poor or disadvantaged families is an … the measures that will secure access to quality education for all children above all to those who are under higher risk of … basic children's right- access to education; chapter five and six sets paths for making chosen policy options sustainable …
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distributes school uniforms to children in poor communities. The Nongovernmental organization (NGO) used a lottery to determine … reduces school absenteeism by 38 percent. Effects are much larger for poorer students who did not previously own a uniform: a …
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-term responses of a grant to school committees in Niger show that parents increased participation and responsibility, but these …
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on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …
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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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health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … taller and have 5.3 more years of schooling than their providers (usually their parents), while female offspring are 4 … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …
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