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This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment, using rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. Results from a...
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This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models (tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an average learning gain of 0.08 of a standard deviation....
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Results-based aid (RBA) models link funds to outcomes, rather than paying for inputs. Despite their theoretical appeal and recent adoption by donors and multilateral development banks, there is limited empirical evidence supporting this form of aid for national governments. We estimate the...
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We study the effects of conditional cash transfers to pregnant women on stillbirths and child survival in Bolivia. Payments are conditional on compliance with medically recommended prenatal care and skilled birth attendance. At a value equivalent to just 1% of monthly household consumption, the...
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Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these … Internet access in secondary public schools in Peru. Rich longitudinal school-level data from 2001 to 2006 are used to … access in schools on repetition, dropout and initial enrollment. Large sample sizes allow ruling out even modest effects. …
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longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using … school fixed effects models to estimate variation in average test scores across cohorts for schools that switched from a half … among the poorest schools and those in rural areas. The results suggest that lengthening the school day may be an effective …
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This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively …
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Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … London primary schools. I exploit as good as random variation in admission to preferred schools arising from centralised …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …
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program was introduced between 2012 and 2015, which established sanctions for persistently low-performing schools, including …-performance ranking was based on the school’s relative position on a set of variables and their corresponding thresholds, we use a … teachers are more likely to leave schools that are labeled as low performing. This effect appears to be relevant only when …
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