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Using a rich data set of almost the entire population of Ukrainian secondary schools, the authors estimate the effect of school size and class size on the performance of secondary schools on Ukraine's External Independent Test. They find that larger schools tend to have somewhat better...
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The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses - the average number of years of schooling in a population - is based only on quantity. But ignoring schooling quality turns out to be a major omission. As recent research shows, students in different countries...
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This paper reports on a randomized experiment to investigate the long-term effects of a primary school scholarship program in rural Cambodia. In 2008, fourth-grade students in 207 randomly assigned schools (103 treatment, 104 control) received scholarships based on the students' academic...
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education outcomes for children from low-income households in northern rural Burkina Faso. The two school feeding programs under … significant impact on the nutrition of younger children …
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will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper …-school age children, who are also more likely to be delayed. The program increased intake of nutrient-rich foods, early …
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Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households …
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rates in 2001, and the longer-term impact of the conflict on primary school completion of cohorts of children observed in …
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This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children … that either directly support the education of children with disabled parents and/or have policies that support disabled …
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The study uses a cluster-randomized trial among 1,578 children from 979 households in rural El Salvador to test the … impacts of TOMS shoe donations on children's time allocation, school attendance, health, self-esteem, and aid dependency …. Results indicate high levels of usage and approval of the shoes by children in the treatment group, and time diaries show …
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or unconditional. Families under the conditional schemes were required to have their children ages 7-15 enrolled in … indicate that unconditional and conditional cash transfer programs have a similar impact increasing the enrollment of children … who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability …
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