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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers

Muralidharan, Karthik; Sheth, Ketki - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in learning outcomes, and the effectiveness of female...

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Immigration, International Collaboration, and Innovation: Science and Technology Policy in the Global Economy

Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Globalization of scientific and technological knowledge has reduced the US share of world scientific activity; increased the foreign-born proportion of scientists and engineers in US universities and in the US labor market; and led to greater US scientific collaborations with other countries....

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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants

Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment...

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Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The large-scale expansion of primary schooling in developing countries has led to the increasing use of non-civil-service contract teachers who are hired locally by the school, are not professionally trained, have fixed-term renewable contracts, and are paid much lower salaries than regular...

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The Aggregate Effect of School Choice: Evidence from a Two-stage Experiment in India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that...

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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

Nyarko, Yaw; Naidu, Suresh; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...

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Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education

Duflo, Esther; Benhassine, Najy; Devoto, Florencia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made...

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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries

Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries--in education, personal autonomy, and more … inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. I argue that while … much of the GDP/gender-inequality relationship can be explained by the process of development, society-specific factors are …

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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India

Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap

Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...

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