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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa

Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019

-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …

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Learning-adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) : defining a new macro measure of education : background paper to the 2019 World Development Report

Filmer, Deon; Rogers, Halsey; Angrist, Noam; Sabarwal, … - 2018

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …

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Does school safety and classroom disciplinary climate hinder learning? : evidence from the MENA region

Cahu, Paul; Quota, Manal - 2019

School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa region, as is demonstrated in this paper using data from...

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How to improve education outcomes most efficiently? : a comparison of 150 interventions using the new learning-adjusted years of schooling metric

Angrist, Noam; Evans, David K.; Filmer, Deon; … - 2020

. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education …. Although hundreds of education interventions have been rigorously evaluated, making comparisons between the results is … for reporting gains from education interventions. The paper applies LAYS to compare the effectiveness (and cost …

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