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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759759
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465107
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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short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457518
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468821
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310120