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Learning and Earning : An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions
Riehl, Evan - 2016
learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of Colombia that link social security … and learning productivities are far from perfectly correlated, with private institutions receiving relatively higher … rankings under earning measures than under learning measures; 2) earning measures are significantly more correlated with …
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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production : Two Centuries of International Evidence
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner - 2012
Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099411
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Cramming : The Effects of School Accountability on College-Bound Students
Donovan, Colleen - 2010
This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long-term performance. Using exceptional data from a large highly-selective state university, we relate school accountability pressure in high school to a student's university-level grades...
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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015
plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022938
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Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention : Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over …-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts to scale up the NGO … Pratham's approach to teaching children according to their actual learning level, in four Indian States. While this approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980670
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Remedying Education : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
Cole, Shawn Allen; Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021
the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality … the second year, relative to comparison schools. A computer-assisted learning program provided each child in the fourth …
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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2009
teachers based on the average improvement of their students' test scores in independently administered learning assessments … in test scores represented an actual increase in learning outcomes. Incentive schools also performed better on subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156535
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The Aggregate Effect of School Choice : Evidence from a Two-Stage Experiment in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.1/MathJax.js?config=AM_HTMLorMML-full"></script>We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that...
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Contract Teachers : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013
limited evidence on the effectiveness of contract teachers in improving student learning. We present experimental evidence on … learning outcomes, but that they are no less effective at doing so than regular civil-service teachers who are more qualified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075428
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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India : Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch
Frisancho, Verónica - 2012
graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in …
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