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Rising college access and completion : how much can free college help?
Ferreira, María M.; Garriga, Carlos; Martin, Juan David; … - 2020
on students, but precisely for this reason leads them to better outcomes. Nonetheless, even performance-based free …
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What works to reduce inequalities in higher education? : a systematic review of the (quasi-)experimental literature on outreach and financial aid
Herbaut, Estelle; Geven, Koen - 2019
Policy makers are increasingly searching for ways to allow more disadvantaged students to access and complete higher … opportunity to identify the causal effects of these interventions on disadvantaged students and discuss inequality mechanisms at … effects of outreach and financial aid interventions on the access and completion rates of disadvantaged students in higher …
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Higher Education Financing in Guinea
World Bank Group - 2015
The World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Guinea in FY 2014-17 confirmed the Government's priority to build 21st century skills for improved employability and to implement systemic reforms. Guinea is emerging from years of political and economic isolation and instability. The...
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The role of government in the market for electric vehicles : evidence from China
Li, Shanjun; Zhu, Xianglei; Ma, Yiding; Zhang, Fan; … - 2020
To promote the development and diffusion of electric vehicles, central and local governments in many countries have adopted various incentive programs. This study examines the policy and market drivers behind the rapid development of the electric vehicle market in China, by far the largest one...
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Do information technologies improve teenagers' sexual education? : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Colombia
Chong, Alberto; González-Navarro, Marco; Karlan, Dean; … - 2019
This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course implemented across public junior high schools in 21 Colombian cities. Six months after finishing the course, the study finds a 0.4 standard deviation improvement in knowledge,...
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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming
Ozier, Owen - 2019
In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
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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...
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The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers
Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...
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The spillovers of employment guarantee programs on child labor and education
Li, Tianshu; Sekhri, Sheetal - 2020
Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...
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Impact of early life exposure to environments with unimproved sanitation on education outcomes : evidence from Bangladesh
Joseph, George; Hoo, Yi Rong; Moqueet, Nazia Sultana; … - 2019
Despite Bangladesh's notable progress toward the eradication of open defecation, the country still faces severe deficits in the availability of improved sanitation. This paper analyzes the impact of exposure to unimproved sanitation early in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using...
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