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School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about … investment in schools via voluntary contributions. One program provides both a cash grant and a matching scheme for privately … raised funds. Difference-in-differences estimation shows that parents in richer schools increased voluntary contributions by …
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in Chile to test the effects and behavioral changes triggered by a … scalable information intervention can improve education outcomes in lower-income settings. …
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps …
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threshold for more selective schools in Barbados attain more years of education than those that scored just below (essentially …Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 …
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