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raises the need to further explore policy actions to couple CCT's objective of increasing human capital with enhanced …
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We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
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. However, we also find that this impact on school achievement is still present eleven years after a child has started school …
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In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those … between the concepts of, and the relationships between, financial education, financial literacy and financial behavior to … identify the true effects of financial education. The review addresses possible biases caused by third factors such as numeracy …
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the same municipality, and whose birthday differs by a few days not only have their incentives to delay school entry … for higher education and the likelihood of being enrolled in a selective college …
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whose parents have higher education levels. Furthermore, they display a heightened likelihood of entering schools employing … college degree.The analysis by level of education of the parents and gender reveals that most of our results are driven by … parents with lower levels of education and girls …
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the policy's implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment trends between hardship and non-hardship schools …) teachers by 10 percentage points. The policy also reduced the pupil-qualified teacher ratio by 27, or 61% of the mean, in …
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility …
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This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we … estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non … patterns of returns that depend on the levels of schooling and ability. Unlike the monetary benefits of education, the benefits …
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often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education …-India level are robust to the statistical method and the education expenditure measure, while they are more sensitive to changes …, with almost universal disadvantage in the amount of education expenditures in the group of 15-19 year olds …
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