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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement : evidence from India
Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …
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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil
Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021
Peers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity...
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Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities : evidence from India
Varghese, Vinitha Rachel - 2022
Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013349403
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The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market : evidence from a public federal university in Brazil
Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2020
Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian university. The rule means that in almost 30 per...
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Elementary education in India versus China : guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
implementation, evaluation, and needed recalibration of the management of school clusters; (3) teacher recruitment, training, and …
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Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia : the role of decentralization
Sari, Virgi - 2018
We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation in the implementation of government decentralization to...
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Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions and skills formation in secondary school
Querejeta, Martina - 2022
school contexts may have substantial effects on reducing gender stereotypes and change gendered behaviours among students. …
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What works to improve the quality of student learning in developing countries?
Masino, Serena; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2015
We conducted a systematic review to identify policy interventions that improve education quality and student learning in developing countries. Relying on a theory of change typology, we highlight three main drivers of change of education quality: first, supply-side capability interventions that...
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Cognitive, socioemotional, and behavioural returns to college quality
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
We exploit the variation in the admissions process across colleges of a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment using scores on standardized university exams; behavioural preferences such as risk, competitiveness, and...
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Impact of school feeding programmes on educational outcomes : evidence from dry cereals in schools in Burkina Faso
Nikiema, Pouirkèta Rita - 2017
the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils' attendance and girls' enrolment rate … Beoog Biiga programme, we find that take-home rations (THRs) increased school attendance for both boys and girls. Moreover …
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