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with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …, the paper provides a rationale for the existing ambiguous empirical evidence on the effect of school resources. The paper …
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This paper evaluates how new information influences families' applications and assignment outcomes in elementary school choice settings. Specifically, using a multi-country RCT based in Tacna, Peru and Manta, Ecuador, we examine the effect of providing personalized information on schooling...
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We study the welfare produced by a coordinated school assignment system that is based exclusively on minimizing distance to schools, comparing the matches it produces to a system that includes household preferences using a deferred acceptance algorithm. We leverage administrative data and a...
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It is unclear whether teachers with a degree in education are more effective than those who are not trained in an … education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student …-significant relationship between degree type and student achievement, suggesting that teachers with and without an education degree are equally …
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This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market … market shares. These findings suggest that providing information in poor education markets can improve market efficiency and …
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variation in inequality. For example, correlations with the socio-economic characteristics of the home and maternal education … maternal education. Gaps between the development of children in the top and low extremes in these factors matter. By 59 months …
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Low salaries, a limited amount of full-time teaching positions, and alternative systems of allocating teaching hours lead teachers to look for additional jobs in other schools. Although this is a more common phenomenon of teacher labor markets in developing countries, teachers who teach specific...
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Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …
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This paper studies the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the school environment on educational achievement. To quantify these effects, the impact is evaluated of a project run by the municipality of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which provides computer-aided instruction in...
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The recent financial crisis has initiated pressures for not only policy reform but also fundamental institutional fiscal reforms. This paper explores the connection between economic crises and fiscal institutional reforms in a region that has experienced plenty of both in recent years, namely...
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