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How Policymakers Should Deal with the Delayed Benefits of Early Childhood Programs
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
provides home visits and educational toys and books to disadvantaged families when the child is between the ages of 2 and 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009822
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Distributional Effects of Early Childhood Programs and Business Incentives and Their Implications for Policy
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
provides home visits and educational toys and books to disadvantaged families when the child is between the ages of 2 and 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009823
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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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Class size: does it matter for student achivement? : smaller classes are often associated with increased achievement, but the evidence is far from universal
Jepsen, Christopher - 2015
which have focused on elementary schools in the US and Europe. While the general finding is that smaller classes are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433601
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Migration Restrictions Can Create Gender Inequality : The Story of China's Left-Behind Children
Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
's access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use two regression …
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
impacted on the elder sister’s teenage fertility. Our main result is that within families, teen births tend to be contagious …
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the … treatment schools), a financial incentive program was initiated to reduce absenteeism. Teachers were given a camera with a … attendance. A teacher’s salary was a direct function of his attendance. The remaining 60 schools served as comparison schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123987
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighbourhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children’s educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated parents, the better the quality of the neighborhood in terms of...
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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