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earlier in the twentieth century, was positively correlated not only with education spending levels but also with aggregate …
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Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest … spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important …
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Economists have long believed education is essential to the acquisition of human capital and contributes to economic … growth. However, education researchers, political and business leaders and other stakeholders have raised concerns about the … quality and costs of the K-12 education system in the United States and the implications for the development of the nation …
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The Right to Education Act in 2009 guaranteed access to free primary education for all children in India ages 6 …
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A large gap in incarceration rates between black and white men has been evident since the early 20th century. This paper examines the effect of access to primary schooling on black incarceration in this period. I use the construction of 5,000 schools in the US South, funded by philanthropist...
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school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in …
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political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected …
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education programs for compensatory and special education. We simulate the distribution of funds and show the considerable …
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consistent with the hypothesis that teacher effort and books are complements in education production …
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This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long-run effects of a student’s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data on all public-school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third-grade academic rank,...
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