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with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …, the paper provides a rationale for the existing ambiguous empirical evidence on the effect of school resources. The paper …
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variation in inequality. For example, correlations with the socio-economic characteristics of the home and maternal education … maternal education. Gaps between the development of children in the top and low extremes in these factors matter. By 59 months …
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Low salaries, a limited amount of full-time teaching positions, and alternative systems of allocating teaching hours lead teachers to look for additional jobs in other schools. Although this is a more common phenomenon of teacher labor markets in developing countries, teachers who teach specific...
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governance models. We find that students enrolled in chains have higher test scores at the end of their primary school education …
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Student achievements are expected to be affected by both educational activities and learning during a course and previous teaching and learning, and earlier eligibility requirements. Using data from a quasi-experimental retrospective study, we estimated the effect on exam scores in an...
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Delivery of vocational education in schools is a controversial issue around the world and attempts to improve it have … been tried for decades. A substantive innovation in vocational education provision came about in 2010 in England when a new … form of hybrid schools was introduced that combine general and vocational education: University Technical Colleges (UTCs …
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This paper evaluates how new information influences families' applications and assignment outcomes in elementary school choice settings. Specifically, using a multi-country RCT based in Tacna, Peru and Manta, Ecuador, we examine the effect of providing personalized information on schooling...
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We study the welfare produced by a coordinated school assignment system that is based exclusively on minimizing distance to schools, comparing the matches it produces to a system that includes household preferences using a deferred acceptance algorithm. We leverage administrative data and a...
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It is unclear whether teachers with a degree in education are more effective than those who are not trained in an … education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student …-significant relationship between degree type and student achievement, suggesting that teachers with and without an education degree are equally …
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