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Does technology in schools affect repetition, dropout and enrollment? : evidence from Peru

Cristia, Julian; Czerwonko, Alejo; Garofalo, Pablo - 2014

Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an open question because of the limited evidence available. This paper contributes to filling that...

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Volunteering and life or financial shocks : does income and wealth matter?

Beatton, Tony; Torgler, Benno - 2014

Volunteering is a dominant social force that signals a healthy state. However, although the literature on volunteering … is extensive, knowledge on how life’s discontinuities (life event shocks) affect volunteering is limited because most … life and financial shocks with respect to volunteering. Although both income and wealth can act as buffers against life …

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Can raising instructional time crowd out student pro-social behaviour? : evidence from Germany

Krekel, Christian - 2017

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Social capital, social heterogeneity, and electoral turnout

Clark, Jeremy; François, Abel; Gergaud, Olivier - 2024

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Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? : evidence from urban Mexico

Araujo, M. Caridad; Martínez, María Adelaida; … - 2018

We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30...

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Is the glass half empty or half full? : school enrollment, graduation, and dropout rates in Latin America

Bassi, Marina; Busso, Matias; Munoz, Juan Sebastian - 2013

This paper uses 113 household surveys from 18 Latin American countries to document patterns in secondary school graduation rates over the period 1990 2010. It is found that enrollment and graduation rates increased dramatically during that period, while dropout rates decreased. Two explanations...

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