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The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …
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While most evaluations of education programs in developing countries examine effects one or two years after a program … are consistent with potential behavioral explanations, such as the program making girls' education salient to households … or catalyzing a shift in social norms around girls' education …
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We study the impact of housing conditions on the educational outcomes of young persons in Switzerland. We focus on children ages 15 to 19, who are potentially enrolled in or graduates of high school or vocational training programs, and young adults ages 20 to 24, who are potentially students in...
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network for-profit operated charter schools are able to economize without compromising student education …
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I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students' GPAs but has little effect on high-scoring students. This lowers mean GPA and raises GPA dispersion. I also directly estimate peer...
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well-being: Education and Skills; Health; Social Protection and Redistribution; and Gender Equality. …
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. Non-cognitive skills, such as skills to use information and communication technology as well as managerial skills, also …-quality childcare, early childhood and full-day primary education still need to expand. The vocational education system is very … successful in integrating young people well in the labour market. Strengthening general education within the successful …
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the education system is important. More and better-quality jobs in the formal sector, especially for the low-skilled, are …
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