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have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have to enrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for a position as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept a temporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504947
have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Although the literature on the effectiveness of child care centers in developing countries is thin, most of the studies have concluded that the provision of these services are beneficial to enhance the development of poor children at early ages. Using different matching techniques, the results...
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program improves enrollment into post-compulsory education, decreases the probability that a child participates in the labor …
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This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Economics of Education Review</I>. Volume 38, pages 51-63.<P> Recent … studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on achievement of … boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We conduct an …
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