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implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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schools to the suspension of lessons in order to guarantee students' right to education. The working paper explains what DAD … digitization of the Italian school; it then explores digital education in Lucanian schools through the analysis of statistical … economic development. Ensuring quality, fair and inclusive education is the fourth goal of the UN Agenda 2030 and is a …
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … evidence showing no change in homework time or other intermediate inputs in education. …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309995
There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …
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