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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes: Experimental evidence from Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021
This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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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
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Origins of Latin American inequality
Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023
documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed …, education and the role of elites. Finally, we conduct a "replication" exercise with some seminal papers in the literature …
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Ansiedad matemática y rendimiento académico en matemáticas de docentes y estudiantes en un contexto de bajos ingresos
Richland, Lindsey Engle; Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Alonzo, … - 2020
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Does gender and sexual diversity lead to greater conflict in the school?
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Herrera, Alejandro; … - 2022
Diversity in gender identity and sexual orientation challenges traditional institutions, social norms, and gendered stereotypes. This may translate into greater levels of conflict in s ociety. Using data from 95 middle and high schools in Uruguay, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518113
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Teacher transfers and the disruption of teacher staffing in the city of Sao Paulo
Elacqua, Gregory; Rosa, Leonardo - 2023
This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. We explore a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring schools. Because teachers have to list and rank their preferences for schools, we can estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518172
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Report cards: Parental preferences, information and school choice in Haiti
Bogner, Michael; Elacqua, Gregory; Jacas, Isabel; … - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518299
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Learning about oneself: The effects of performance feedback on school choice
Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2016
This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786373
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School reorganization reforms: The case of school networks in Colombia
Elacqua, Gregory; Sánchez Torres, Fabio; Santos, Humberto - 2019
To contribute to the debate about the reorganization of the public-school supply, in this paper we analyze a reform introduced in Colombia in 2001 that merged several independent small schools into a single educational institution, with the same name, administration, educational project and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142000
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Good schools or good students? Evidence on school effects from universal random assignment of students to high schools
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian; Kim, Beomsoo; Malamud, Ofer - 2022
How much do schools differ in their effectiveness? Recent studies that seek to answer this question account for student sorting using random assignment generated by central allocation mechanisms or oversubscribed schools. However, the resulting estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer...
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