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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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workforce in the current world of work, little is known about the contribution they make to students' outcomes, above and beyond …
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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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now gone through a demographic transition, with declining birth rates and an increase in the aging population, low-income …
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This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in …'s own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math test … scores and educational expectations, with a large and sustained impact in test scores among students outside the capital city …
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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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Students in low-income countries often have trouble learning to read; 80-90 percent of second and third graders in some … originated in high-income countries. Despite relative affluence, the academic performance in the Arab world has been a problem …, with countries scoring on international tests much lower than expected based on per capita income level. Similarly Early …
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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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children. Of the 200 million children who do not reach their developmental potential worldwide, 66 percent live in South Asia … that contribute to the growth and development of children in early childhood. There are also large gaps in teachers …' understanding and practice of classroom accommodations for children with disabilities. The paper illustrates that educators, who …
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