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' perceptions of school management. When teacher data are matched with school-level data on student achievement using a national … assessment data set (SIMCE), some teacher and school characteristics affect student performance, but a great deal of unexplained … authority, whether the school schedule is strictly enforced, and the extent to which teachers have autonomy in designing …
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" non-cognitive return to schooling. However, once the treated group is expanded to include secondary school students, the … bias. For this treated group (mixture of basic school and secondary school age students), the labor market rewarded …
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a larger reduction in school funding, and (ii) appear to have exited public schools partially in reaction to increased …
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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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