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School Grants and Education Quality : Experimental Evidence from Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro - 2016

quality. This paper uses a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which allowed …

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Can Solar Lanterns Improve Youth Academic Performance? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Kudo, Yuya - 2017

This study conducted an experimental intervention in unelectrified areas of northern Bangladesh to investigate the effectiveness of solar products in improving children's educational achievement. It found that treated households substituted solar lanterns for kerosene-based lighting products,...

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How Much Teachers Know and How Much It Matters in Class : Analyzing Three Rounds of Subject-Specific Test Score Data of Indonesian Students and Teachers

De Ree, Joppe - 2016

Improving the quality of education is one of today's main challenges for governments in the developing world. Based on a unique matched student-to-teacher panel data set on test scores this paper presents two empirical results for Indonesia. First, through detailed inspection of teacher-level...

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School-based management and learning outcomes : experimental evidence from Colima, Mexico

Garcia-Moreno, Vicente; Gertler, Paul J.; Patrinos, … - 2019

A school-based management program was implemented Mexico in 2001 and continued until 2014. This national program, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes. In 2006, the national program was evaluated in the Mexican state of Colima, being the...

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Does school safety and classroom disciplinary climate hinder learning? : evidence from the MENA region

Cahu, Paul; Quota, Manal - 2019

School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa region, as is demonstrated in this paper using data from...

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Promoting parental involvement in schools : evidence from two randomized experiments

Barrera, Felipe; Gertler, Paul J.; Nakajima, Nozomi; … - 2020

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … two randomized controlled trials. The first experiment provided financial resources to parent associations. The second … experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …

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