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This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention- The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project in … Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools comprised of a … findings suggest that there is a modest impact on school participation: ROSC schools increase enrolment probability between 9 …
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Philippines, the analysis finds that some children, who were in neither school nor work before the program, increased …Could a partial subsidy for child education increase children's participation in paid work? In contrast to much of the … theoretical and empirical child labor literature, this paper shows that child work and school participation can be complements …
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"Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem …--200 million adolescents and youth are out of school, live in adverse life circumstances, and face multiple disadvantages …
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. The study evaluates the evolution of the program's effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers over roughly a … effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers throughout the period and that these effects were stable. This pattern …
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method. In other words, over the course of a business-as-usual school year, students learn between 0.15 and 0.21 standard …
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-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine …Access to school has risen dramatically in recent decades, with large gains from reducing costs. Few studies report … who would receive a school uniform. Receiving a uniform reduced school absenteeism by 37 percent for the average student …
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This paper studies the impact of a computer-assisted learning program on learning outcomes among high school students …
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between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important role of secondary school availability on underage fertility. An … increase of one school per 100 females reduces a cohort's teenage birthrate by between 0.250 and 0.563 births per 100, or a …
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measures to proxy for noncognitive skills in wage decompositions. The analysis finds that years of school explain most of the …
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expenditures for children within a household. The analysis finds positive and significant effects of the program at the aggregate …
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