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This study evaluates the impact of a community-based information campaign on school performance from a cluster … Indian states to disseminate information to the community about its state mandated roles and responsibilities in school … school outcomes. …
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student learning. Parents and school committees are neither aware of their oversight roles nor participating in school …
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over resource allocation, monitoring and management of school performance. However, in a baseline survey this paper finds …
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school-going age. In Rwanda school enrollment trends suggest that the school system recovered quickly after 1994, but these …
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Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for...
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The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya … activity. Reducing the cost of education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing. …
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The ages of first union and of first parenting are of considerable interest, not only because of their implications for individual welfare and well-being over the life cycle, but also because they are strongly associated with fertility patterns that are thought to have important implications for...
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direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan: Did the intervention increase female enrollment in … public schools? To address this question, the authors draw on data from the provincial school censuses of 2003 and 2005. They … strategies suggests that the average program impact between 2003 and 2005 was an increase of six female students per school in …
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important fact that has been left out of the debate on Pakistani education. Moreover, when the authors look at school choice …) child to a public or private school or both. Widely promoted theories simply do not explain this substantial variation …
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This paper examines the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school … preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison … experienced prior to the program. The school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class sizes. Despite improved …
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