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general education has led to an increase in hourly wages of men, but not of women, who completed basic vocational schools. …
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to full-day schools on several measures of 'the quality of mothers' jobs, which were correlated to working full-time. We …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms and recruitment of teachers in a differential rate...
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To reduce the spread of COVID-19, schools closed to an unprecedented degree in the spring of 2020. To varying extent … the implications of school closures of primary to upper-secondary schools for virus transmission, student learning, and …. However, several studies find that schools could reopen safely, especially when substantial within-school preventive measures …
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This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed-effect linear probability model on Nigeria data, it exploits the quasi-randomness of these measures to estimate their effect on school attendance after the lockdown was lifted....
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The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest periods of shutdown. Comparison of the learning outcomes with...
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We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West … Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …-primary sections of the government schools. However, the rise in enrollment did not translate into improved performance of the students …
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rich longitudinal student data and the different timings of the roll-out of the program, within and across schools. The …
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Official statistics indicated a break in Okun's law in all the Spanish regions due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, herein, evidence of the validity of the law is shown. The temporary layoff procedures (ERTE) allowed many workers to maintain their jobs. From the productive point of view, the...
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greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …
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