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Teachers' preferences for proximity and the implications for staffing schools: Evidence from Peru
Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; … - 2019
closer to where they attended their Teacher Education Program (TEP) and prefer to work in urban areas. Moreover, candidates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142015
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Reducing parent-school information gaps and improving education outcomes: Evidence from high-frequency text messages
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - 2021
scalable information intervention can improve education outcomes in lower-income settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604882
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Can conditional cash transfers alter the effectiveness of other human capital development policies?
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2024
Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...
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Interactions between conditional cash transfers and preferred secondary schools in Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2022
Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518209
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Improving early literacy through teacher professional development: Experimental evidence from Colombia
Marinelli, Horacio Alvarez; Berlinski, Samuel G.; … - 2022
Teachers are the most fundamental input of students' learning. For this reason, developing teaching skills is a policy priority for most governments around the world. We experimentally evaluate the effectiveness of "Let's All Learn to Read," a one-year professional development program that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518168
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The Impact of Public Expenditures in Education, Health, and Infrastructure on Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Peru
Baca Campodónico, Jorge F.; Peschiera Cassinelli, Jorge R. - 2014
expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314134
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Natural resource windfalls in nonproducing areas
Ome, Alejandro; Pérez, Javier - 2022
We study the impact of natural resource royalties on educational outcomes in Colombia. We analyze a reform enacted in 2012 that made the distribution of these royalties more equitable. Before the reform, most royalties were assigned to the regions where the natural resources were exploited; with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518231
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Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints
Bando, Rosangela; Uribe, Claudia - 2016
Credit constraints are central to development economics theory. However, there is scant direct evidence that supports the existence of such constraints. Traditional tests observe how consumption changes after an unexpected income shock. Such changes can also result from myopic behavior or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535756
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Does education prevent job loss during downturns? Evidence from exogenous schools assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658403
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Motivation, Resources and the Organization of the School System
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535782