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Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … school-age years (14-17 years). The policy primarily affects the marginal child leading to the postponement of the timing of …
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This paper investigates whether citizenship of immigrant students in the host country influences their choice of majors, and whether these effects differ by gender. Using detailed students' data from an Italian university, combined with characteristics of the countries of origin, I examine the...
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Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the...
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We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country’s required upper...
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Education is a fundamental human right and it is a global Sustainable Development Goal to “ensure inclusive and … equitable quality education for all.” Many children with disabilities in low-income countries, however, continue to be excluded …. Realizing the right to inclusive education for children with disabilities requires policies and practices that are tailored to …
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We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple difference, and synthetic control methodologies, we find...
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The Italian economy performs well below the EU average. The reason is a dramatic and persistent low rate of investment, always invoked but never supported by national and supra-national institutions. However, investment to increase the quantity and quality of human capital is key to boost...
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developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in …
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Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban … areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an exogenous change … children's education. Our findings reveal that the younger cohorts exposed to the reform are 15.1 percentage points more likely …
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policy is to more equitably distribute qualified teachers of mathematics to reduce the concentration of out …
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