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. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …
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leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource … in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children. We … learning outcomes in those schools. However, we do find that the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to read …
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This paper studies the medium run consequences of an increase in the rate of accumulation of human capital in a developing country. From 1974 to 1978, the Indonesian government built over 61,000 primary schools. The school construction program led to an increase in education among individuals...
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education and earnings. Children ages 2 to 6 in 1974 received 0.12 to 0.19 more years of education for each school constructed … per 1,000 children in their region of birth. Using the variations in schooling generated by this policy as instrumental …
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This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … black and white students in North and South Carolina that existed in the first half of the 20th century, and the subsequent …
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This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A … variety of evidence suggests that students who were educated in schools with more resources tend to earn more and have higher …
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affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …
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The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students … survey students about what their expected earnings would be both in the major they have chosen and in counterfactual majors …. We also elicit students' subjective assessments of their abilities in chosen and counterfactual majors. We estimate a …
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school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …
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and numeracy skills to children lagging behind in government schools. We find the program to be very effective: it … increased average test scores of all children in treatment schools by 0.14 standard deviations in the first year, and 0.28 in … grade with two hours of shared computer time per week, in which students played educational games that reinforced …
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