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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020
This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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School resource and performance inequality : evidence from the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2014
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Teacher performance-based incentives and learning inequality
Filmer, Deon; Habyarimana, James Paul; Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2020
This study evaluates the impacts of low-cost, performance-based incentives in Tanzanian secondary schools. Results from a two-phase randomized trial show that incentives for teachers led to modest average improvements in student achievement across different subjects. Further, withdrawing...
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No more cutting class? : Reducing teacher absence and providing incentives for performance
Rogers, F. Halsey - 2009
"Expanding and improving basic education in developing countries requires, at a minimum, teachers who are present in the classroom and motivated to teach, but this essential input is often missing. This paper describes the findings of a series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher...
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When do in-service teacher training and books improve student achievement? : experimental evidence from Mongolia
Fuje, Habtamu; Tandon, Prateek - 2015
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School choice, student performance, and teacher and school characteristics : the Chilean case
Vegas, Emiliana - 2002
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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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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019
In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
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Requirements to be a teacher in Brazil : effective or not?
Barbosa, Marcelo Ponte; Costa, Leandro Oliveira - 2019
Policy makers in Brazil attempted to improve human capital through changes in the legislated requirements for teacher education in 1996. They passed a national Law of Guidelines and Standards of Education that established 2007 as the deadline for all Brazilian basic education teachers to have...
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