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Two significant challenges hamper analyses of the collective choice of educational vouchers. One is the multi-dimensional choice set arising from the interdependence of the voucher, public education spending, and taxation. Second, even absent a voucher, preferences over public spending are not...
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Growing concerns about low awareness and take-up rates for government support programs like college financial aid have spurred calls to simplify the application process and enhance visibility. This project examines the effects of two experimental treatments designed to test of the importance of...
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of the transfers are conditional on students' graduation and tertiary enrollment rather than attendance. On average, the … (particularly sisters) of treated students work more and attend school less than students in families that received no treatment. We …
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textbook provision has a large impact on test scores. Disaggregating the results by students? initial academic achievement … suggests a potential explanation for the lack of an overall impact. Textbooks increased scores for students with high initial … academic achievement and increased the probability that the students who had made it to the selective final year of primary …
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The literature generally points to a negative relationship between female education and fertility. Citing this pattern, policymakers have advocated educating girls and young women as a means to reduce population growth and foster sustained economic and social welfare in developing countries....
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For a three-year time period beginning in 2001, North Carolina awarded an annual bonus of $1,800 to certified math, science and special education teachers working in high poverty or academically failing public secondary schools. Using longitudinal data on teachers, we estimate hazard models that...
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personal income and number of students on expenditure on public primary and secondary education. Our analysis suggests that the …
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and hence the quality of public education. More students would obtain college degrees due to increased enrollment. Over 86 …
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persistence of at-risk students at scale …
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sources do not provide a direct way of identifying which students are credit constrained. This has forced researchers to adopt …-out decisions of some students, the large majority of attrition of students from low income families should be primarily attributed …
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