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Effects of a multi-faceted education program on enrollment, equity, learning, and school management : evidence from India

Delavallade, Clara; Griffith, Alan; Thornton, Rebecca L. - 2019

The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …

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Effects over the life of a program : evidence from an education conditional cash transfer program for girls

Chhabra, Esha; Najeeb, Fatima; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019

While most evaluations of education programs in developing countries examine effects one or two years after a program … are consistent with potential behavioral explanations, such as the program making girls' education salient to households … or catalyzing a shift in social norms around girls' education …

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Education and its poverty-reducing effects: the case of Paraíba, Brazil

Verner, Dorte - 2004

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The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers

Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...

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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming

Ozier, Owen - 2019

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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Impact of early life exposure to environments with unimproved sanitation on education outcomes : evidence from Bangladesh

Joseph, George; Hoo, Yi Rong; Moqueet, Nazia Sultana; … - 2019

Despite Bangladesh's notable progress toward the eradication of open defecation, the country still faces severe deficits in the availability of improved sanitation. This paper analyzes the impact of exposure to unimproved sanitation early in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using...

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Gender education gaps among indigenous and nonindigenous groups in Bolivia

Reimão, Maira Emy; Taş, Emcet Oktay - 2015

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Education and conflict recovery : the case of Timor Leste

Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Salardi, Paola - 2011

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Gender, ethnicity and cumulative disadvantage in education : evidence from Latin American and African censuses

Tas, Emcet O.; Reimao, Maira Emy; Orlando, Maria Beatriz - 2013

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Do information technologies improve teenagers' sexual education? : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Colombia

Chong, Alberto; González-Navarro, Marco; Karlan, Dean; … - 2019

This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course … documents suggests this technology is a viable alternative for improving sexual education in middle-income countries …

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