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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows
Amanzadeh, Naser; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
well as the returns to experience and education by location and current workplace. For workers in emerging economies, the …
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Crowding in Private Quality : The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education
Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
were 0.2 sd higher in public schools. We find evidence of an education multiplier: test scores in private schools were also … 0.2 sd higher in treated markets. Consistent with standard models of product differentiation, the education multiplier …
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Covid-19 Learning Loss and Recovery : Panel Data Evidence from India
Singh, Abhijeet; Romero, Mauricio; Muralidharan, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use a panel survey of ~19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study 'learning loss' after COVID-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months after school closures) displayed learning deficits of...
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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...
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Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both … adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education …
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Does Performance Pay Enhance Social Accountability? Evidence from Remote Schools in Indonesia
Gaduh, Arya; Pradhan, Menno; Priebe, Jan; Susanti, Dewi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Social accountability offers a viable alternative to top-down supervision of service delivery in remote areas when travel cost renders the latter ineffective. However, this bottom-up approach may not be effective when the community has weak authority relative to the service provider. This paper...
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Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor : Long Term Outcomes
Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is well established, research on longer-term effectiveness is scarce, particularly in LDCs. We present results of a randomized scalable intervention in India, that affected...
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...
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Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants : Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Dupas, Pascaline; Falezan, Camille; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Despite the well-established importance of verbal engagement for infant language and cognitive development, many parents in low-income contexts do not converse with their infants regularly. We report on a randomized field experiment evaluating a low-cost intervention that aims to raise verbal...
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Four Facts about Human Capital
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
technology for producing these skills is not well-understood. We know that investment in education works and that skills matter …
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