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impacts of a randomized girls' merit scholarship incentive program in Kenya that raised test scores and secondary schooling …
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We examine the institutional details of the school milk procurement process, bidding data, statements of dairy … and one half percent, or roughly the cost of shipping school milk about 50 miles …
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's global share of GDP means that liberal Asian nations will be poised to take up the role of promoting liberal democracy …
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school would go on to secondary school. However, students with weaker academic backgrounds did not benefit from the textbooks …
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A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
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settings across five countries: India, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, and Uganda. We test multiple scalable models of remote … instruction for primary school children during COVID-19, which disrupted education for over 1 billion schoolchildren worldwide …
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Proprietary data for production workeis is analyzed to determine which aspects of productivity are affected by secondary schooling. The measures of productivity explored are: propensity to quit and be absent, phisical oatput per hour, and ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that...
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We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the …
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We study the effects of private school competition on public school students' test scores in the wake of Florida … to a more competitive private school landscape saw greater improvements in their test scores after the introduction of … private school options open to students. We find that greater degrees of competition are associated with greater improvements …
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of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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