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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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learning were concentrated among initially better-performing schools and students. At the same time, learning outcomes may have … decreased for schools and students that were lower performing at baseline. Finally, the study finds that incentivizing students …
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This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored … children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, an age-eligibility rule followed from … 1980 to 1992 is utilized that limited sponsorship to children twelve years old or younger when the program was introduced …
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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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in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using pseudo-panel data for children ages six to nine years in …-a difference of 8 to 10 percentage points-for children ages six to seven. It is also strong in rural areas. The results are …
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. 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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-taking is driven by those at the bottom of the income distribution. Third, in the presence of conspicuous consumption, access to …
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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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