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Educator incentives and educational triage in rural primary schools
Gilligan, Daniel O.; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Kasirye, Ibrahim - 2018
report the results of an experiment in rural Uganda that sought to reduce dropout rates in grade six and seven by offering …
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Taking the easy way out : how the GED testing program induces students to drop out
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - 2008
We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...
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The COVID-19 pandemic, well-being, and transitions to post-secondary education
Sandner, Malte; Patzina, Alexander; Anger, Silke; … - 2021
This study examines the immediate and intermediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of two high school graduation cohorts (2020 and 2021). We also investigate how changes in well-being at the transition to post-secondary education affect educational plans and outcomes. Our...
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School choice and higher education attainment
Alessandrini, Diana; Milla, Joniada - 2022
We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented in Chile in 1981. The program allowed students to choose which primary and secondary schools to attend. The government covered tuition independently of whether the chosen...
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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020
Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced 'University Technical Colleges' (UTCs) in 2010 for...
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Does class size matter in postgraduate education?
Gaggero, Alessio; Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2019
The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest Schools of a Russell Group University in the UK. As well as estimating Fixed Effects models on the population of postgraduate candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change...
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Estimates of earnings returns by field of study for for-profit schools and community colleges
Jepsen, Christopher; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R.; … - 2023
This paper estimates labor-market returns for students pursuing certificates or associate's degrees in eight broad fields of study at community colleges and for-profit institutions. The data contain 400,000 students beginning their studies between 2005 and 2012 in one state. We estimate two-step...
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Far above rubies : the association between bride price and extramarital sexual relations in Uganda
Bishai, David (contributor);  … - 2007
from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the theoretical prediction that payment of bride price will be …
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
; education ; economic development ; Uganda …
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Bribery in health care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2007
in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care … rate of 0.8%; doubling household expenditure in Uganda increases the bribery probability by 1.2 percentage points compared ….37 in Uganda. Bribes in the Ugandan public sector appear to be fees-for-service extorted from the richer patients amongst …
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