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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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Peer Gender and Schooling : Evidence from Ethiopia
Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2022
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/10014240828
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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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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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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices : A Field Experiment in Primary Schools
Belot, Michèle - 2015
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013575
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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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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2010
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137511
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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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Is there an educational penalty for being suspended from school?
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - 2013
Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those suspended. It finds that while suspension is strongly associated with educational outcomes, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224597
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Open enrolment and student achievement
Friesen, Jane; Harris, Benjamin Cerf; Woodcock, Simon D. - 2013
We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with available space, on fourth grade test scores. We find a small, positive effect on the average student; this benefit appears to stem from increased competition among schools,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195439