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The effects of shared school technology access on students digital skills in Peru
Bet, Germán; Cristia, Julian; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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Do children benefit from internet access? : experimental evidence from a developing country
Malamud, Ofer; Cueto, Santiago; Cristia, Julian; … - 2018
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received...
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Does technical education improve academic outcomes? : evidence from Brazil
Elacqua, Gregory; Navarro-Palau, Patricia; Prada, Maria … - 2019
Despite the renewed interest in technical education, only a handful of studies analyze its effect on academic outcomes …, Brazil, to identify the impact of technical education during high school on student academic outcomes. We find that students …
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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Do longer school days improve student achievement? : evidence from Colombia
Hincapie, Diana - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005,...
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Does an education major matter for teaching? : the relationship between teachers' degree and student achievement
Drouet, Marcelo; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; … - 2022
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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In a small moment : class size and moral hazard in the Mezzogiorno
Angrist, Joshua D.; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - 2015
An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size...
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Re-estimating the gender gap in Colombian academic performance
Munoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014
This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database,...
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The apple falls increasingly far : parent-child correlation in schooling and the growth of post-secondary education in Switzerland
Hanslin, Sandra (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper, we analyze the completed highest education degree of two birth cohorts (1934-1943 and 1964-1973) in … tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents … models show that financial problems have become more important as an impediment for higher education. …
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Single motherhood and (un)equal educational opportunities : evidence for Germany
Mahler, Philippe (contributor);  … - 2005
We examine the effect of single motherhood on children’s secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous studies for the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, we find a negative correlation between single motherhood and...
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