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educational outcomes between countries. There is some evidence that, after controlling for education spending and the overall … contribuer aux différences de résultats scolaires entre pays. En contrôlant pour le niveau de dépenses d’éducation et de …
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situations. Positive discrimination in education policies should be given a real priority and education spending rationalised to …
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This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts on …
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The study of education in developing countries has been transformed by the rapid increase in the feasibility and … broad range of research questions regarding education in developing countries that have been addressed using field … limitations of field experiments and strategies for mitigating them through better design. Third, it provides a practical toolkit …
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China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has … lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic … number of problems. Access to pre-school education is still far from universal. Migrants’ children as well as rural and poor …
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From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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sometimes be in its interest to democratize by subsidizing education when the economy is closed, incentives to do so disappear …
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This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
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In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...
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From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702977