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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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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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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted … technology that is increasingly ubiquitous: school-to-parent communication technologies. Using data from a Learning Management … System in several hundred schools and a two-stage experiment to study the adoption of this technology by parents, I find: A …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …
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insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
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We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, uency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …
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Recent research has reported positive effects on schooling due to in utero protection from iodine deficiency resulting from iodized oil capsule distribution in Tanzania. We revisit the Tanzanian experience by investigating how these effects differ over time and across surveys; across different...
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In 1980, seven out of the seventeen Spanish regions were devolved education spending responsibility. Using a difference …
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