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We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
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the policy's implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment trends between hardship and non-hardship schools …) teachers by 10 percentage points. The policy also reduced the pupil-qualified teacher ratio by 27, or 61% of the mean, in …
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teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides …
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Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter … sources of charter effect heterogeneity, we show that urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of urban public … school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …
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education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. We use applicant lotteries to evaluate the … emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that … special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math …
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device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this … migration by taking into account the correct counter-factual – the generational education gains that would have taken place if …
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employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied … by more labor mobility within and between EU countries, in combination with a selective immigration policy based on labor … EU member states' economies. We translate the vibrant scenario into policy proposals distinguishing between the role for …
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Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic … growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing … in resolving or channeling the major societal questions. More European competition between universities in education and …
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raises the need to further explore policy actions to couple CCT's objective of increasing human capital with enhanced …
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. However, we also find that this impact on school achievement is still present eleven years after a child has started school …
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