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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
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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Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been attributed to greater education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The contribution of this paper is to study the connection...
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
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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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...
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Location and Education in South African Cities Under and After Apartheid
Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
intensified land market competition. After Apartheid, we also show that reducing the commuting costs of black children always …
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
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Human Capital In Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make?
de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We construct a revised version of the Barro and Lee (1996) data set for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources and following a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp breaks in the data that seem to reflect changes in...
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Immigrating to Opportunity: Estimating the Effect of School Quality Using a Natural Experiment on Ethiopians in Israel
Gould, Eric D; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
whereby the initial schooling environment of Ethiopian children can be considered exogenous to their family background and … of Ethiopian children, using administrative panel data on the educational career of each child in Israel through much of …
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