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students' ability and past achievement, I use instrumental variables that are derived from two allocation rules that partly … suggest that increasing instruction hours and reducing class size have significant effects on students' achievements. The OLS …
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adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …
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adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …
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Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an …
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Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an …
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Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...
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students' performance on high-school matriculation exams. Since the schools in the program were not selected at random, the … performance incentives have a significant effect on students' achievements in English and math. No spillover effect on untreated …-effective than alternative forms of intervention such as extra instruction time and is as effective as cash bonuses for students …
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the total test measurement error that can be applied when one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the …
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We study the impact of financial incentives on higher education decisions and the choice of major. We rely on a reform whereby Israeli kibbutzim shifted from their traditional policy of equal sharing to productivity-based wages. We use for identification the staggered implementation of this...
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