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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany
Argaw, Bethlehem Asres; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the quasi-random assignment of students to different class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129878
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Elite school designation and house prices : quasi-experimental evidence from Beijing, China
Huang, Bin; He, Xiaoyan; Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2018
We explore three recent comprehensive reforms which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to … schools through lotteries, the reform of school federation led by elite schools consolidates ordinary primary schools through … alliance with elite schools. Moreover, an ordinary primary school can be promoted to key elementary school without involving …
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Does pre-school improve child development and affect the quality of parent-child interaction? : evidence from Algeria
Lassassi, Moundir - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on the quality of parent–child interactions and children's cognitive outcomes. My identification strategy exploits geographical differences in terms of exposure to the program, controlling for the period when the program is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221874
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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Impact of early childcare on immigrant children's educational performance
Corazzini, Luca; Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2019
This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data on the entire population of students in fifth grade collected by the Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149251
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One billion euro program for early childcare services in Italy
Giorgetti, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2020
In 2007 the Italian central government started a program by transferring funds to regional governments to develop both private and public early childcare services. Exploiting the different timing of program implementation across regions, we evaluate its effectiveness in boosting the public...
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Women's education, marriage, and fertility outcomes : evidence from Thailand's compulsory schooling law
Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023
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 from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and a...
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Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2020
We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the … training, a random sample of schools received intensive training organized by an NGO for two years. The training consisted of … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265259
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Arsenic exposure and school participation in Cambodia
Saing, Chan Hang; Cannonier, Colin - 2017
We exploit the exogenous variations of arsenic contamination across regions in Cambodia and apply two-period difference-in-differences (DID) to examine the impact of arsenic-contaminated groundwater on school participation among children aged 5-17. We find that conditional on the DID assumption,...
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