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Keeping girls in schools longer : the Kanyashree approach in India
Sen, Gitanjali; Thamarapani, Dhanushka - 2022
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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Education, gender and family formation
Virtanen, Hanna; Silliman, Mikko; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; … - 2024
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Female education and social change
Bühler, Mathias; Vollmer, Leonhard; Wimmer, Johannes - 2023
history, we find that the opening of schools providing secondary education for women increased their representation among the … higher human capital, connecting women to form a social movement. We find no evidence of other city-specific indicators of … increasing representation of women among the human capital elite, as the opening of gender-specific schools has no impact on the …
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Changing intrahousehold decision making to empower women in their households : a mixed methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south-west Tanzania
Lecoutere, Els; Chu, Lan - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid - 2021
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...
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Higher education funding reforms : a comprehensive analysis of educational and labour market outcomes in England
Azmat, Ghazala; Simion, Stefania - 2018
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The end of free college in England : implications for quality, enrolments and equity
Murphy, Richard; Scott-Clayton, Judith E.; Wyness, Gill - 2017
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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...
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