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Financial constraints and girls' secondary education : evidence from school fee elimination in The Gambia

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Gajigo, Ousman; Pugatch, Todd - 2015

We assess the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity, composition, and achievement of students. The gradual rollout of the program across geographic regions provides identifying variation in the policy. The program increased access to...

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Teacher pay and student performance : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance

Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2014

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...

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Informal fee elimination and student performance : evidence from the Gambia

Giordono, Leanne; Pugatch, Todd - 2015

Informal school fees - for uniforms, books, and other supplies - are substantial in developing countries, often several times formal tuition. We evaluate a scholarship program that alleviated informal fees for girls in a subset of Gambian secondary schools. The program is unique because it...

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How has COVID-19 affected the intention to migrate via the backway to Europe and to a neighboring African country? : survey evidence and a salience experiment in The Gambia

Bah, Tijan L.; Batista, Catia; Gubert, Flore; McKenzie, … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in border closures in many countries and a sharp reduction in overall international mobility. However, this disruption of legal pathways to migration has raised concerns that potential migrants may turn to irregular migration routes as a substitute. We examine...

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Incentives for teacher relocation : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance

Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2013

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of...

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Improving access and quality in early childhood development programs : experimental evidence from the Gambia

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Carneiro, Pedro; Jervis, Pamela; … - 2019

This paper studies two experiments of early childhood development programs in The Gambia: one increasing access to services, and another improving service quality. In the first experiment, new community-based early childhood development (ECD) centers were introduced to randomly chosen villages...

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Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?

Bah, Tijan L.; Batista, Catia; Gubert, Flore; McKenzie, … - 2023

Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and a key policy concern. A cluster-randomized experiment with 3,641 young men from 391 settlements in The Gambia is used to test three approaches to reducing risky migration:...

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Improving parental investments in children : experimental evidence from The Gambia

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Carneiro, Pedro; Jervis Ortiz, Pamela; … - 2024

We study two early childhood programs in The Gambia for children between 0 and 3 years of age. The basic version of the program, called Baby Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI), provides parents with child health and nutrition information delivered through home visits and community meetings. A...

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Demand for off-grid solar electricity : experimental evidence from Rwanda

Grimm, Michael; Lenz, Luciane; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, … - 2016

Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present paper examines whether the objective and the associated costs are...

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The reliability of students' earnings expectations

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Nilsson, Jan Olof William - 2017

study, we focus on the reliability of students’ earnings expectations. To what extent is observed log earnings expectations … affected by random measurement error (noise)? A test-retest method is applied and reliability is found to be fairly low; about … analysis show how these measures of reliability can be adjusted to become more suitable to other studies, where different …

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