Similar Search Results

Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants : experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools

Leaver, Clare; Ozier, Owen; Serneels, Pieter; Zeitlin, … - 2020

some teachers who applied for a fixed-wage contract ended up being paid by P4P, and vice versa. By the second year of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296890

Are teachers in Africa poorly paid? : evidence from 15 countries

Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei; Filmer, Deon - 2020

Pay levels for public sector workers-and especially teachers-are a constant source of controversy. In many countries in … countries from other regions. The results suggest that in several (seven) countries, teachers' monthly salaries are lower than … other formal sector workers with comparable levels of education and experience. However, in all of those countries, teachers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297403

The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico

Avitabile, Ciro - 2015

A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the returns to upper secondary and tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for tertiary education, can contribute to improve student performance. The study finds that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245710

Child Marriage, Early Childbearing, Low Educational Attainment for Girls, and Their Impacts in Uganda

Wodon, Quentin - 2017

The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to data from the latest publicly available Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) implemented in 2011. Yet despite progress, more than one third of girls still marry as children, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644996

Analyzing the Dynamics of School Dropout in Upper Secondary Education in Latin America : A Cohort Approach

Kattan, Raja Bentaouet - 2015

This study examines trends in school dropout at the upper secondary education level across Latin America over the past two decades, and attempts to identify factors influencing these rates. The methodology contributes to the existing literature by employing repeated cross sections of data to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246306

School Dropout in Central America : An Overview of Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Promising Interventions

Adelman, Melissa - 2016

School dropout is a growing concern in Central America, and in Latin America as a whole, because of its consequences for economic productivity, the inclusiveness of growth, social cohesion, and increasing youth risks. This paper utilizes more than two decades of household survey data to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246475

Progress and challenges of upper secondary education in China

Chen, Dandan; Fu, Ning; Pan, Yilin - 2019

Over the past decade, China's transition rate from lower secondary education to higher secondary education has increased significantly, from 80.5 to 93.7 percent. In light of this impressive progress, the Chinese government aimed at raising the gross enrollment rate in senior high schools to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121243

Long-term effects of free primary education on educational achievement : evidence from Lesotho

Moshoeshoe, Ramaele - 2020

Many Sub-Saharan African countries have instituted free primary education policies, and this has led to a significant increase in the primary school enrollment rate. However, many children who are in school are not learning. It is not clear whether free primary education policies have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388648

What explains the gender gap reversal in education? : the role of the tail hypothesis

Bossavie, Laurent; Kanninen, Ohto - 2018

The gender gap reversal in educational attainment is ubiquitous in high-income countries, as well as in a growing share of low- and middle-income countries. To account for the reversal, this paper proposes a theoretical framework in which the interplay between the distributions of academic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806626

Predicting individual wellbeing through test scores : evidence from a national assessment in Mexico

De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Estrada, Ricardo; Vargas, María José - 2018

This paper constructs two longitudinal datasets that record students' test scores in a national standardized exam in Mexico and track students from the end of primary (Grade 6) to the end of lower (Grade 9) and upper (Grade 12) secondary school, then to university and labor market participation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875072