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School access, resources, and learning outcomes: Evidence from a non-formal school program in Bangladesh
Dang, Hai-Anh; Sarr, Leopold; Asadullah, Niaz - 2011
This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention - The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project - in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools comprised of a single teacher and a classroom. The operating...
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The effects of "girl-friendly" schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT school construction program in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282424
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A second chance at education for early school leavers
Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-Ping - 2012
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline the importance of programs that encourage early school leavers to return to post-school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287610
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Targeting non-cognitive skills to improve cognitive outcomes: evidence from a remedial education intervention
Holmlund, Helena; Silva, Olmo - 2009
a remedial education programme aimed at English secondary school pupils at risk of school exclusion and with worsening … as self-confidence, locus of control, self-esteem and motivation - with the aim of improving pupils' records of … repeated observations on pupils' test scores to control for unobservables that might affect students' outcomes and selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271288
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Urban density and pupil attainment
Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2007
We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in … environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most disadvantaged pupils with low average attainments attend the most urbanised … schools. To control for this, we exploit changes in urban density faced by pupils during compulsory transition from Primary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268471
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Does schooling affect health behavior? Evidence from the educational expansion in Western Germany
Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen; Salm, Martin - 2009
During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the...
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Peer effects in European primary schools: evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Choice, competition and pupil achievement
Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2006
. In this paper, we study whether pupils in Primary schools in England with a wider range of school choices achieve better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267737
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Schooling and citizenship: evidence from compulsory schooling reforms
Siedler, Thomas - 2007
This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268069
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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274166