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Chapter 16 Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries

Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 945-1017). 2006

. The policies considered include not only provision of basic inputs but also policies that change the way that schools are …

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Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya

Moulin, Sylvie; Kremer, Michael; Glewwe, Paul - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 112-35

A randomized evaluation in rural Kenya finds, contrary to the previous literature, that providing textbooks did not raise average test scores. Textbooks did increase the scores of the best students (those with high pretest scores) but had little effect on other students. Textbooks are written in...

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Teacher Incentives

Glewwe, Paul; Ilias, Nauman; Kremer, Michael - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 3, pp. 205-27

We analyze a randomized trial of a program that rewarded Kenyan primary school teachers based on student test scores, with penalties for students not taking the exams. Scores increased on the formula used to reward teachers, and program school students scored higher on the exams linked to...

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Peer Effects and Alcohol Use among College Students

Kremer, Michael; Levy, Dan - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 22 (2008) 3, pp. 189-206

This paper examines the extent to which college students who drink alcohol influence their peers. We exploit a natural experiment in which students at a large state university were randomly assigned roommates through a lottery system. We find that on average, males assigned to roommates who...

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Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua; Bettinger, Eric P.; Kremer, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered half the cost of private secondary school. The vouchers were renewable annually conditional on adequate academic progress. Since many vouchers were assigned by lottery, program effects can reliably be...

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Is there an educational penalty for being suspended from school?

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - In: Education economics 23 (2015) 4, pp. 376-395

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Peer effects, teacher incentives, and the impact of tracking : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - 2008

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School meals, educational achievement, and school competition : evidence from a randomized evaluation

Kremer, Michael - 2005

comparison group. The meals program led to higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the teacher was relatively … incentives, teacher absenteeism remained at a high level of 30 percent. Treatment schools raised their fees, and comparison … schools close to treatment schools decreased their fees. Some of the price effects are caused by a combination of capacity …

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The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education in Kenya

Evans, David - 2008

The authors evaluate the impact of an educational intervention, in which a Kenyan non-governmental organization distributes school uniforms to children in poor communities. The Nongovernmental organization (NGO) used a lottery to determine who would receive uniforms. Although compliance with the...

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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

Tekin, Erdal; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...

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