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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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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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We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population...
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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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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using … status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is … status of biological and in-law families means that marriage accounts for more than one third of total intergenerational …
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