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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...
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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 …
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share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …
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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 …
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Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study … parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program …
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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 …
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. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …
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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...
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