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The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
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We find substantial and statistically significant detrimental effects of fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) on children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their...
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overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational attainment. Exposure to a primary education program mitigates … impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not … fathers) has adverse impacts on child growth, survival, and education. Impacts vary with age of exposure. For mother and child …
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-relevant counterfactual. As an example, we suggest considering the effect of reducing the marriage penalty' in the earned-income tax credit … (EITC) that makes the credit essentially unavailable to two-earner couples. The EITC marriage penalty counterfactual, like …
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either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …
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