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Education, reputation or network? : evidence from Italy on migrant workers employability
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna; Ponti, Giovanni - 2009
. This could explain the over education problem that characterizes many countries, Italy included. The aim of the paper is to … investigate whether the above mentioned mechanisms are adopted by immigrants in Italy, a crucial country for EU immigration flows … deeply-rooted in Italy. The specific embodied capital of workers matter relatively more. This is relevant for labour public …
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The effect of cash transfers to schools on voluntary contributions
Bando Grana, Rosangela - 2014
School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental investment in schools via voluntary contributions....
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Child care arrangements and labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela - 2015
This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and because most European and American households with...
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Concurrent validity and feasibility of short tests currently used to measure early childhood development in large scale studies : methodology and results
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Araujo, María Caridad; Attanasio, … - 2016
In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527322
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Validez concurrente y viabilidad de pruebas cortas comúnmente usadas para medir el desarrollo infantil temprano en estudios a gran escala : metodología y resultados
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Araujo, María Caridad; Attanasio, … - 2016
In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527323
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Privately managed public secondary schools and academic achievement in Trinidad and Tobago : evidence from rule-based student assignments
Beuermann, Diether W.; Jackson, Clement; Sierra, Ricardo - 2015
Many nations allow private entities to manage publicly funded schools and grant them greater flexibility than traditional public schools. However, isolating the causal effect of attending these privately managed public schools relative to attending traditional public schools is difficult because...
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Under the "cloak of invisibility" : gender bias in teaching practices and learning outcomes
Bassi, Marina; Blumberg, Rae Lesser; Mateo Díaz, Mercedes - 2016
This paper analyzes gender bias in teaching in low-performing schools in Chile. To carry out the analyses, the authors used videotaped classes for fourth graders and coded 237 tapings. Results show a general (although not uniform) bias in teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to...
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¿Demanda insuficiente o insatisfecha? : el caso de un programa municipal de provisión de guarderías en Chile
Mateo Díaz, Mercedes; Vásquez, Javiera - 2016
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The effect of tracking students by ability into different schools : a natural experiment
Guyon, Nina; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - 2010
The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries. There is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and little agreement on the effects of any further increase in its size. This paper presents a natural experiment...
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Validez predictiva de pruebas cortas comúnmente usadas para medir el desarrollo infantil en estudios a gran escala
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Grantham-McGregor, Sally - 2020
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