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rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of …
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public primary school teachers in 2018 and test for their correlation with the results of the 2015 and 2017 national …
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This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...
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This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market …
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disadvantaged schools: Chile, Colombia, and Peru. We use unique micro-data at the teacher and school level to describe the … of schooling and a moderate relationship with the geographic location of the school (rural). While our analyses are …
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exposure at each school. We precisely estimate that increased particulate pollution leads to a small but statistically …
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specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …
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which school characteristics teachers value the most can help us design new policies and modify the existing ones to attract …
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This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...
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variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer … quality across these school types, we find little evidence of any relative benefit in attending an assisted school between the …
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