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Peer Gender and Schooling : Evidence from Ethiopia
Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2022
In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to...
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Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy : The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China
Qian, Nancy - 2009
Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for … households where the children are of the same sex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463676
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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices : A Field Experiment in Primary Schools
Belot, Michèle - 2015
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013575
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The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa : Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)
Boone, Peter David - 2013
household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7 …-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of children were able to add two single digits, and just 19% were able … to read and comprehend a simple word. Our unannounced school checks found 72% of enrolled children in grades 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459691
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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2010
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137511
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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 - 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/10012940851
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Demographics, Fiscal Health, and School Quality : Shedding Light on School Closure Decisions
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary schools, declining enrolments and rural locations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148069
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Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed - 2020
Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829930
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Who Benefits From Attending Effective Schools? Examining Heterogeneity in High School Impacts
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2020
We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th-grade) for students who are more versus less educationally advantaged (i.e., likely to attain more years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482413
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The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes : Evidence from Randomized Lotteries
Cullen, Julie Berry - 2003
School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic achievement. Evaluating the impact of such programs is complicated by the fact that a highly select sample of students takes advantage of these programs. To overcome this...
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