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Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children
Simon, David; Sojourner, Aaron; Pedersen, Jon; Ombisa … - 2024
Difference-in-differences analysis of linked administrative data estimates effects of a Minnesota policy change that increased the payments to adoptive parents and kin guardians for children ages 6 and older, making them equal to what foster care payments were, but didn't for younger children....
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A Closer Look: Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...
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Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement
Craig, Ashley C; Martin, David - 2023
Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan - 2023
estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …
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Work versus School? The Effect of Work on Educational Expenditures for Children in Mexico
Kaletski, Elizabeth - 2016
working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for … particular, on average, girls engaged in paid work have total annual education expenditure shares that are 48.6% higher than … expenditure is directed towards goods that improve the quality of education. …
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Stigma in Welfare Programs
Celhay, Pablo; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022
Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...
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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2014
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women … from the younger cohort being far more positive about female vs. male education of both children and adults. The effect of …
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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Das, Maitreyi Bordia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women … from the younger cohort being far more positive about female vs. male education of both children and adults. The effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105063
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Making Work Pay for the Indebted: The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals
Koning, Pierre - 2013
This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...
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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
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