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Class size versus class composition : what matters for learning in East Africa?

Jones, Sam - 2013

effects, which refer to class composition, also may affect outcomes. This study uses new microdata from East Africa …

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Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth : evidence from Bangladesh

Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2016

There are many studies on the effects of conditional cash transfer programmes on enrolment, productivity and poverty reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect. This paper provides new evidence on effects of the...

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The education sector in Mozambique : from access to epistemic quality in primary education

Mário, Mouzinho; Monjane, Celso Marcos; Santos, Ricardo - 2020

From the early days of national independence in 1975, the central aim of the educational policy in Mozambique has been to ensure that all school-age children have access to school and can remain there until they have completed their basic education. In the pursuit of this aim, the extension of...

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Smart classrooms and education outcomes : evidence from Rwanda

Nsabimana, Aimable; Nganga, Muthoni; Niyizamwiyitira, … - 2024

In this study, we explore the impact of a smart classroom (SCM) programme on student performance in science subjects in a high-stakes national exam for middle-high school students in Rwanda. To do this, we leverage plausibly exogenous variations in programme exposure induced by the staggered...

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The education backlash : how assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict

Bozçağa, Tuğba; Cansunar, Asli - 2023

Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of heightened threat of ethnic mobilization. This study...

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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 state of Rajasthan. Across the years 2014, 2016, and 2017, Rajasthan merged many of its grade 1-5 schools with grade 6-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three...

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Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance : a multilevel approach

McNabb, Kyle - 2017

This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin...

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On the fertility transition in Africa : income, child mortality, or education?

Mveyange, Anthony - 2015

A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … Africa. This finding is consistent with the predictions of the unified growth theory and sheds important insights in … explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per …

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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Does sorting matter for learning inequality? : evidence from East Africa

Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh; Jones, Sam - 2019

over one million children from three countries in Eastern Africa. Applying a novel variance decomposition procedure, our …

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