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Delaying the Bell : The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile
Kruger, Diana I. - 2010
mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150285
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Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
García, Jorge Luis - 2017
This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956027
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122967
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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Borkum, Evan - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085045
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Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China
Chen, Yuanyuan - 2012
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household … registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This paper examines the consequences of such a partially … migrant students who are unable to enroll in public schools perform significantly worse than their more fortunate counterparts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099717
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013575
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Macroeconomic Conditions and Child Schooling in Turkey
Mine Güneş, Pinar - 2018
This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic shocks on child schooling in Turkey using household labor force surveys from 2005-2013. We use variation in local labor demand as an instrumental variable, particularly regional industry composition and national industry employment growth rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912781
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Armed Conflict and Schooling : Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien - 2021
To examine the impact of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on children's schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group's baseline schooling and exploits variation across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325139
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The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality Among Natives
Aygün, Aysun - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health system was completely broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced numerous diseases during their exodus, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824426
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Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J. - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096465