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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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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/10011279240
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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teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884331
teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078413
education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. We use applicant lotteries to evaluate the … emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that … special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278368
Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter … sources of charter effect heterogeneity, we show that urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of urban public … school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282587
Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter … sources of charter effect heterogeneity, we show that urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of urban public … school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279324
education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. We use applicant lotteries to evaluate the … emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that … special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021633