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There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
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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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tamper-proof date and time function, along with instructions to have one of the children photograph the teacher and other … schools and children were 40% more likely to be admitted into regular schools. …
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We develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children’s educational … the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education … neighborhood has a significant impact on their children’s educational attainment. …
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In Israel, as in many other countries, a high school matriculation certificate is required by universities and some jobs. In spite of the certificate’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast differences in matriculation rates by region and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the...
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We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Performance-related pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, but there is little evaluation to date on the effects of such programmes. This Paper evaluates a particular incentive experiment. The incentive program is a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and...
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indirect effect of returns to human capital on parents' preferences for sons and the resulting demand for children and … education. We assume that parents maximize the full income of their children and that males have an additional income … that parents who have daughters first have more children. Daughters are born to larger families and hence receive less …
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identification strategy relies on ratios between the number of young children and the capacity of preelementary schools observed at … unobserved determinants of early enrollment decision and children achievement. We measure this effect on schooling achievement in …
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Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …
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