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Truth matters, and the norms associated with a democratic society, such as the common good, responsibility, ethics, and civic engagement, are under attack with the emergence of the post-truth society. There are concerns worldwide that public education is failing us on pushing back on...
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heterogeneity among a sample of small urban retail shops in Indonesia, and experimentally tests whether learning about the best … simply distributed to a randomly selected sample of shop owners and complemented with three experiential learning modules … coupled with experiential learning. On business performance, the study finds sizable and significant improvements as well, up …
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Empirical literature on digital technologies for student learning is generally unable to identify separately whether … learning gains arise from reciprocity in response to the gift of a valuable gadget (the 'gadget effect') or from increasing … content. The findings show that six to eight months of exposure to eReaders led to modest positive impacts on learning, but …
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This paper studies the medium-term impact of early-life welfare transfers on children's learning. It studies children … experiment began. The findings show that in-kind transfers did not impact test scores, while cash transfers led to a significant … led to an increase in child labor, which is likely detrimental to learning. In-kind food transfers, however, induced a …
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COVID-19-related school closures are pushing countries off track from achieving their learning goals. This paper builds … on the concept of learning poverty and draws on axiomatic properties from social choice literature to propose and … motivate a distribution-sensitive measures of learning poverty. Numerical, empirical, and practical reasons for the relevance …
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objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …
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, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes. In 2006, the national program was … the applicants. An intent-to-treat approach did not detect any impact on learning outcomes; a formal school …-based management intervention plus a monetary grant was not enough to improve learning outcomes. First, the schools in the evaluation …
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Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 … worldwide, learning has stagnated; (b) girls outperform boys on learning-a positive gender gap-in contrast to a negative gender …
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