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through damage to infrastructure. These two channels call for different policy interventions, focusing on the different stages …
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This study investigates men's attitudes toward women's education in Afghanistan, focusing on primary, secondary, and … toward women's education are predominantly negative, notably in rural areas. However, women's contributions to household … income significantly mitigate these negative attitudes, particularly toward secondary education, followed by tertiary …
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lower education achievement and socioeconomic advantage than their non-Indigenous counterparts. We find that the promise … promise program through a field study involving Indigenous Australian high school students, a population who tends to have …
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lower education achievement and socioeconomic advantage than their non-Indigenous counterparts. We find that the promise … promise program through a field study involving Indigenous Australian high school students, a population who tends to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844208
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … determinant for performance differentials within cohorts. We find that the optimal policy is pro-competitive at later selection …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both …
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-generation immigrants has increased over time. Third, demographics and family background contribute to the achievement gaps between …
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We estimate the short- and long-term effects of universal preschool education by analyzing the impact of the Israeli …
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through damage to infrastructure. These two channels call for different policy interventions, focusing on the different stages …
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