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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production … endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558635
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The effect of a social experiment in education
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Marten - 2001
The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a ``social experiment''...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281427
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Teacher preparation and student achievement
Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pamela L.; Lankford, Hamilton; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755141
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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - In: Journal of economic growth 11 (2006) 2, pp. 97-127
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373849
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Measure for measure : the relationship between measures of instructional practice in middle school English Language Arts and teachers' value-added scores
Grossman, Pamela L.; Loeb, Susanna; Cohen, Julia; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003972615
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Education choices in Mexico : using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Santiago, Ana - 2010
that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children … neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary … school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653555
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Subsidizing vocational training for disadvantaged youth in developing countries : evidence from a randomized trial
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kugler, Adriana D.; Meghir, Costas - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...
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Education, health and mortality : evidence from a social experiment
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509738
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The role of teacher quality in retention and hiring : using applications to transfer to uncover preferences of teachers and schools
Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamp; Loeb, Susanna; Ronfeldt, … - In: Journal of policy analysis and management : the journal … 30 (2010) 1, pp. 88-110
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Education, health and mortality : evidence from a social experiment
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526855