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The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
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The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of …
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to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching, tutoring, group activities, free public transportation tickets … and bursaries for postsecondary education. In this paper, we use a difference-in-differences approach that compares …
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Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …
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beliefs and outcomes for females but not for males. Marriage is a mechanism that is relevant for understanding differences in …
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We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery … players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …
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We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are entrusted with a larger budget share. We show, first...
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …
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. Additionally, matrilineal kinship closes the education gap between male and female children, and matrilineal children experience …
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