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Evidence-Based Teaching : Effective Teaching Practices in Primary School Classrooms
Molina, Ezequiel - 2018
Even after spending five to six years sitting in a classroom almost every day for anywhere between four to seven hours, a significant share of students in low- and middle-income countries are still not able to read, write, or do basic arithmetic. What explains this "learning crisis?" A growing...
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The Whys of Social Exclusion : Insights from Behavioral Economics
Hoff, Karla - 2017
All over the world, people are prevented from participating fully in society through mechanisms that go beyond the structural and institutional barriers identified by rational choice theory (poverty, exclusion by law or force, taste-based and statistical discrimination, and externalities from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941538
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Culture, Politics, and Development
Woolcock, Michael - 2017
understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today?s leading theorists of culture and development represent a …
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture : The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst - 2017
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here the...
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Fear is What Weighs Most : Experiences of Women in Situations of Violence in Accessing Support Services in Brazil
Machado, Ana Luiza - 2020
violence. The phenomenon is observed in many countries, including in Brazil, despite its robust legal framework to prevent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839378
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Electricity Access and Structural Transformation : Evidence from Brazil's Electrification
Perez‐Sebastian, Fidel - 2020
analysis based on Brazil's historical data over the period 1970-2006 confirm that the manufacturing sector benefits the most in …
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Sugar Prices, Labour Income and Poverty in Brazil
Krivonos, Ekaterina - 2006
household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …
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How Important are Spillovers from Major Emerging Markets?
Huidrom, Raju - 2017
The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio De Janeiro
Cruz, Tassia De Souza - 2017
This paper examines the full-time school program in Rio de Janeiro's municipal schools. The program, called as the "Single-Shift" schools (Turno Unico), extends the time students spend in municipal schools and seeks to improve the quality of education provision by creating a diverse curriculum...
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Economywide and Sectoral Impacts on Workers of Brazil's Internet Rollout
Dutz, Mark A. - 2017
This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … Internet connections. These data are combined with Brazil's rich, matched employer-employee survey, which contains annual …
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