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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017
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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Educational statistics as an indicator of technological activity
Jacobsson, Staffan - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 24 (1995) 1, pp. 127-136
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Financial literacy, education, and voter turnout
Lo Prete, Anna - 2021
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Managing racism? : race equality and decolonial educational futures
Ali, Suki - 2020
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Islam and human capital in historical Spain
Cinnirella, Francesco; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2020
This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in...
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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare
Mundle, Sudipto - 2018
This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
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Anti-discrimination measures in education : a comparative policy analysis
Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017
-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
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Educational inequality in Mozambique
Berg, Servaas van der; Maia, Carlos da; Burger, Cobus - 2017
higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
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Good things come in threes : multigenerational transmission of human capital
Moreno M., A. Héctor - 2018
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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa
Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019
This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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