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one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … sheds some light on this issue by examining whether students' outcomes are affected when their teachers work in more than … teachers, ranging from 0.05 to 0.11 standard deviations. Low income students are also more negatively affected when their …
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-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of … explore several mechanisms, including teachers’ effort, students’ misbehavior, and peer-to-peer interactions. Our findings show …
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-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …. We explore several mechanisms, including teachers' effort, students' misbehavior, and peer-to-peer interactions. Our …
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CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs, leave little doubt that such programs can increase enrollment and grades attained––in the short term. But evidence is notably lacking...
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school-based financial education programs for youth. The intervention improves students’ and teachers’ financial knowledge by … sizable positive impacts on self-control and consumption habits among students are identified. Teachers in the treatment group …
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-achieving students and no significant effects among low achievers. Students in top tracking enjoyed multiple advantages, particularly a … concentration of high-performing peers and a very homogeneous classroom, that facilitated the teacher's work and increased students …' effort l evels. Bimodal classes fostered greater effort levels among top students, while teachers induced less competition …
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-related performance gap is explained by selection problems in the group of low-skilled and poor male students. In particular, the high … overcome this issue, unobservable male students are simulated and bounding procedures used. The results of this analysis …
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Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...
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that small increases in shared computer access, one more computer per 40 students, can produce large increases in digital …
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