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Canals-Cerd?? and Ridao-Cano investigate the effect of work on the school progress of rural Bangladeshi children. They … specify a dynamic switching model for the sequence of school and work outcomes up to the end of secondary school, where the … switching in each school level is determined by the endogenous work history of the child up to that level. This approach allows …
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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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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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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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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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This paper examines the monetary benefits and costs of the quantity of public schooling (that is, years of schooling completed) in Ghana. The paper also examines the monetary benefits and costs of some aspects of the quality of public schooling, measured by the gains in achievement produced by...
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created by national COVID-19 school closure policies. The paper leverages a unique data set of monthly enterprise data … business in response to a school closure policy than men with children. Female entrepreneurs were found to take on a greater … their business and increase the time spent on domestic and care responsibilities in response to a school closure policy …
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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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