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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
de Janvry, Alain - 2010
transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462023
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Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities
Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2007
expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465567
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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries
Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil … market outcomes while others may hinder them. Two practices predict improvements in all labor market outcomes in Brazil and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362018
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
"Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. We present a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and household inputs, and test its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394918
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Conditional cash transfers in education design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia
Barrera Osorio, Felipe (contributor) - 2008
"We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the conditional cash transfer (CCT) -- with a student level randomization that allows us to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521179
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The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Bennhoff, Frederik H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper monetizes the life-cycle intragenerational and intergenerational benefits of the Perry Preschool Project, a pioneering high-quality early childhood education program implemented before Head Start that targeted disadvantaged African-Americans and was evaluated by a randomized trial. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599294
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The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper demonstrates multiple beneficial impacts of a program promoting intergenerational mobility for disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group across the life cycle, which translates into better family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599347
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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210113
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Some Children Left Behind : Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention
Buhl-Wiggers, Julie; Kerwin, Jason; Munoz-Morales, Juan S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy pro-gram in northern Uganda. The program increases test scores by 1.40 SDs on average, but standard statistical bounds show that the impact standard deviation exceeds 1.0SD. This implies that the variation in effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696368
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Education and Income Gradients in Longevity : The Role of Policy
Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the possible role of policy should be as a result. The evidence from various studies is ambiguous: the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814469