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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240828
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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 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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Enhancing young children's language acquisition through parent-child book-sharing : a randomized trial in rural Kenya
Knauer, Heather A.; Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; … - 2019
Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study … parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004969
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Contrasting experiences : understanding the longer-term impact of improving access to preschool education in rural Indonesia
Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Kinnell, Angela; Maika, Amelia; … - 2019
. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167888
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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...
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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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Secondary schools and teenage childbearing : evidence from the school expansion in Brazilian municipalities
Koppensteiner, Martin; Matheson, Jesse - 2020
This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil. Using a novel dataset to exploit variation from a 57 increase in secondary schools across 4,884 Brazilian municipalities between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388752
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Longer School Schedules and Early Reading Skills : Effects from a Full-Day School Reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … deviations in reading comprehension. Effects are heterogeneous, with greater benefits among children attending public (municipal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980339