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Do Scholarships Help Students Continue Their Education?

World Bank - 2012

The World Bank is committed to assisting developing countries raise their educational standards, part of the United Nations millennium development goals. The work includes supporting projects that explore how best to support children staying in school. One recent project was in Cambodia, where...

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Can student loans improve accessibility to higher education and student performance? : an impact study of the case of SOFES, Mexico

Blom, Andreas - 2004

"Financial aid to students in tertiary education can contribute to human capital accumulation through two channels … different control group. Empirical results suggest that SOFES recipients show better academic performance than students without …, since the impacts also could reflect (self-) selection of students. This paper--a product of the Human Development Sector …

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Chile's State-Guaranteed Student Loan Program : Analysis and Evaluation

World Bank - 2013

,000 active borrowers or 23 percent of the 940,000 students in pre-grado. Even as the annual number of new beneficiaries levels … higher education, taking into account the effectiveness of targeting qualified but financially needy students and its … remaining parts of the chapter focus on CAE's stakeholder's students, tertiary education institutions, financial entities, and …

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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation

Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...

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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009

"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child health and education. One hypothesis for this...

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Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance : impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi

Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009

"This paper examines the impacts of natural disasters on schooling investments with special focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and the likelihood of public...

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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel - 2009

"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment

Macours, Karen - 2008

"A variety of theories of skill formation suggest that investments in schooling and other dimensions of human capital will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer...

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Promotion with and without learning : effects on student enrollment and dropout behavior

King, Elizabeth M. - 2008

their peers' ability to perform at the next level. Alternatively, promoting students into grades for which they are not … of Pakistan, students are promoted primarily on the basis of merit. An econometric decomposition of promotion decisions …

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Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador

Schady, Norbert Rudiger - 2006

"The impact of cash transfer programs on the accumulation of human capital is a topic of great policy importance. An attendant question is whether program effects are larger when transfers are "conditioned" on certain behaviors, such as a requirement that households enroll their children in...

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