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Peer gender and schooling: evidence from Ethiopia
Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2021
In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549728
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Telementoring and homeschooling during school closures : a randomized experiment in rural Bangladesh
Hassan, Md. Hashibul; Islam, Asad; Siddique, Abu; Wang, … - 2023
intervention (telementoring) among primary school children and their mothers during Covid-19 school closures. Post …-intervention, treated children scored 35% higher on a standardized test, and the homeschooling involvement of treated mothers increased by … 22 minutes per day (26%). We also found that the intervention forestalled treated children's learning losses. When we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394220
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Breakfast after the bell : the effects of expanding access to school breakfasts on the weight and achievement of elementary school children
Abouk, Rahi; Adams, Scott J. - In: Economics of education review 87 (2022), pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197949
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COVID-19 and the European education performance decline : a focus on primary school children's reading achievement between 2016 and 2021
Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Granato, Silvia - 2023
share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014412448
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Genetic and socioeconomic achievement gaps in elementary school
Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022
during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … to selection into different environments, the high PGS children are simply better at extracting resources from a given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275398
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Health shocks and children's school attainments in rural China
Sun, Ang; Yao, Yang - In: Economics of education review 29 (2010) 3, pp. 375-382
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The effect of early childhood developmental program attendance on future school enrollment in rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam; Viren, Vejoya - In: Economics of education review 34 (2013), pp. 146-161
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Sibling spillover in rural China : a story of sisters and daughters
Bansak, Cynthia; Jiang, Xuan; Yang, Guanyi - 2020
We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an … strongest when both children are daughters. However, the son-preference culture emphasized in certain regions negatively offsets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201296
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Student achievement conditioned upon school selection : religious and secular secondary school quality in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul; Dar, Amit - In: Economics of education review 26 (2007) 6, pp. 648-659
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003611750
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School assignment, school choice and social mobility
Burgess, Simon M.; Briggs, Adam - In: Economics of education review 29 (2010) 4, pp. 639-649
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009243685