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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Glewwe, Paul William; Kremer, Michael; Zitzewitz, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....
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Mitigating Long-run Health Effects of Drought: Evidence from South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Drought is Africa's primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in...
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Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa
Robinson, James Alan; Heldring, Leander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context …, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes … the colonial period, but also to take a view on what might have happened without colonialism and also to take into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821784
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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sheth, Ketki - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in learning outcomes, and the effectiveness of female...
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Does Gifted Education Work? For Which Students?
Card, David E.; Giuliano, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K‐12 students. As in the debate over selective college admissions, a key issue is targeting. Should gifted and talented programs be allocated on the basis of cognitive ability, or a broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969246
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Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model
Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We estimate a dynamic learning model of the college dropout decision, taking advantage of unique expectations data to greatly reduce our reliance on assumptions that would otherwise be necessary for identification. We find that forty-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two...
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The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice
Dur, Umut M.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Pathak, Parag A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
School choice plans in many cities grant students higher priority for some (but not all) seats at their neighborhood schools. This paper demonstrates how the precedence order, i.e. the order in which different types of seats are filled by applicants, has quantitative effects on distributional...
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Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York City
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Hu, Weiwei; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the most wide-ranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York City's high school match to estimate the effects of...
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Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The large-scale expansion of primary schooling in developing countries has led to the increasing use of non-civil-service contract teachers who are hired locally by the school, are not professionally trained, have fixed-term renewable contracts, and are paid much lower salaries than regular...
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The Aggregate Effect of School Choice: Evidence from a Two-stage Experiment in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
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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