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Is the 'Quarter of Birth' Endogenous? Evidence from One Million Siblings in Taiwan

Fan, Elliott - 2014

be due to high-'socioeconomic status' (SES) women in the US disproportionately planning births away from the winter …

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The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools on Non-Test Score Outcomes

Dobbie, Will - 2013

High-performing charter schools can significantly increase the test scores of poor urban students. It is unclear whether these test score gains translate into improved outcomes later in life. We estimate the effects of high-performing charter schools on human capital, risky behaviors, and health...

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Remedying Education : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Cole, Shawn Allen; Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021

of education in urban slums. A remedial education program hired young women from the community to teach basic literacy …

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Urban Poverty, School Attendance, and Adolescent Labor Force Attachment : Some Historical Evidence

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2021

It is well known that children raised in poverty demonstrate lower academic achievement than children raised in affluence. This study extends previous studies in three ways. First, it estimates structural instead of reduced-form models of child academic attainment. Such structural models...

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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Duflo, Esther - 2010

To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...

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Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming

Hicks, Joan Hamory - 2020

This study exploits a randomized school health intervention that provided deworming treatment to Kenyan children and utilizes longitudinal data to estimate impacts on economic outcomes up to 20 years later. The effective respondent tracking rate was 84%. Individuals who received 2 to 3...

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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming

Ahuja, Amrita - 2015

United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …

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Women's Education : Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey

Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - 2013

the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … proportion of ever married women with eight years of schooling lowered number of pregnancies per woman by 0.13 and number of … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

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Women's Suffrage and Children's Education

Kose, Esra - 2018

While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear … whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage laws, we …

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The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime

Cano‐Urbina, Javier - 2017

This paper estimates the effects of educational attainment and school quality on crime among American women. Using …, and teacher salaries) on incarceration and arrests. Finally, we show that the effects of education on crime for women are …

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