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significant and substantial gains in both math and language achievement scores, an approximately one-quarter standard deviation … increase in learning outcomes for the now young men. Hence in Nicaragua, schooling and achievement gains coincided, implying …
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This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation, with an experimental design, which estimates the effect on learning math of a remote tutoring program offered to girls and boys aged 9-14 years in three departments of El Salvador. The program used low-tech interventions such as text...
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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...
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This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation, with an experimental design, which estimates the effect on learning math of a remote tutoring program offered to girls and boys aged 9-14 years in three departments of El Salvador. The program used low-tech interventions such as text...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518294
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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Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are important anti-poverty programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. There is little evidence, however, of the effectiveness of ongoing CCT programs several years after they have begun. Such evidence is particularly relevant for policymakers because...
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. Results show significant increases in grade attainment for different cohorts of non-indigenous girls and boys. This is … percent for those exposed at school-going ages. Educational gains are much more limited for indigenous children, though grades … attained increases significantly for some cohorts of indigenous girls. Finally exposure to the CCT more than doubles the …
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic...
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: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …-educated women (those with incomplete secondary education). However, progress has not been equal across all the countries in the …
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