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Selective Secondary Education and School Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Hoop, Jacobus de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …

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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...

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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...

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On the Effectiveness of Child Care Centers in Promoting Child Development in Ecuador

Rosero, Jose - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Although the literature on the effectiveness of child care centers in developing countries is thin, most of the studies have concluded that the provision of these services are beneficial to enhance the development of poor children at early ages. Using different matching techniques, the results...

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The ABC of Housing Strategies: Are Housing Assistance Programs Effective in Enhancing Children's Well Being?

Rosero, Jose - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

program improves enrollment into post-compulsory education, decreases the probability that a child participates in the labor …

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Gender Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Economics of Education Review</I>. Volume 38, pages 51-63.<P> Recent … studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on achievement of … boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We conduct an …

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Trade-offs between Different Early Childhood Interventions: Evidence from Ecuador

Rosero, Jose; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Using a discontinuity in the funding scheme, we evaluate the impact of home visitsand child care centers on poor children and mothers in Ecuador. We find thathome visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for mothers'psychological well-being but reduce mothers' labor...

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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

> This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore … exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in …

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Structural Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates: The Impact of Sentence Reform in Virginia

Vujic, Suncica; Commandeur, Jacques; Koopman, Siem Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

We adopt a structural time series analysis to investigate the impact of parole abolition and sentence reform in Virginia on reported crime rates. The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony offences committed on or after January 1, 1995. To examine the...

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