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There is a proliferation of economics blogs, with increasing numbers of economists attracting large numbers of readers, yet little is known about the impact of this new medium. Using a variety of experimental and non-experimental techniques, this study quantifies some of their effects. First,...
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university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after … students' graduation. The paper complements earlier evidence that documented small, short-term impacts on entry into self …
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potential to raise program pertinence while allowing the prioritization of investments in teachers and students with the …
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This paper studies the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African … university dormitories. Tracked or streamed assignment creates dormitories where all students obtained similar scores on high … of students. Tracking lowers students' mean grades in their first year of university and increases the variance or …
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more than 8 percent. The analysis also provides evidence that students are willing to pay a premium of about 4 percent of …
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With an estimated 115 million children not attending primary school in the developing world, increasing access to … historical evidence from developed economies. The students of today are the teachers of tomorrow …
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earthquake of January 2010, just 19 percent of primary school students were enrolled in public schools, with the remainder … determinant of attendance. Given these findings, the authors conclude that in the near-term paying school fees for poor students …
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72,000 students in 61 schools. This paper assesses the performance of Fe y Alegria secondary schools in Colombia using … students belong. Simple statistics suggest that Fe y Alegria schools perform worse than other schools for all years in the … sample. However, Fe y Alegria schools also cater to poorer students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Once controls …
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-performing and well-resourced students. Finally, the paper shows that ideas of accountability and absenteeism are strongly framed by …
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The impact of performance pay in institutions with multiple goals depends on complementarities in the disutility cost of effort and how different tasks interact to achieve each goal. Workers of a mission-oriented nonprofit were randomly assigned to one of two bonus schemes, each incentivizing...
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