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Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: Evidence from Colombia

Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana - 2011

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. While there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about their...

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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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Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing

Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2021

Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...

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Impact of Early Childhood School Intervention on Enrollment and Learning Outcomes: Evaluation of a Public Program in India

Bhattacharya, Nilanjan; Pakrashi, Debayan; Saha, Sarani; … - 2023

We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2013 on children's early enrolment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple difference, and synthetic control methodologies, we find...

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Biased Teachers and Gender Gap in Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India

Rakshit, Sonali; Sahoo, Soham - 2021

We investigate the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on the learning outcomes of secondary school students in India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other characteristics in academic performance. We...

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Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital: Evidence from Colombia

Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001087

The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships

Jansen, Anika; de Grip, Andries; Kriechel, Ben - 2016

curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi … when they have more choice options in the training curriculum because of (1) the higher productivity of graduates who have … 2014. We find that a more heterogeneous curriculum increases both firms' supply of and students' demand for training places. …

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Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class

Strenio, Jacqueline; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2023

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in...

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What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books

Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2023

Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data and apply them, along with text analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin...

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