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markets with several public and private schools are now pervasive in low- and middle-income countries, prudent policy requires …
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tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …
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; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high-income … countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …
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ratings distribution, decreases adult criminal involvement. Accountability pressures also reduce the propensity of students …
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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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-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked …
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needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low … Child Tax Credit (CTC), which provided monthly, unconditional cash payments to families with children from July to December …
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Access to safe and stable housing is important for child and adult wellbeing. Yet many low-income households face … parameterized difference-in-differences method and use national data from a sample of parents who are receiving, or recently … higher likelihood that parents reported a change in their living arrangements as well as reduced household size, an effect …
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