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School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they complete their primary education lacking even basic reading,...
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reported that 192 countries had closed all schools and …
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In low-income countries, private schools are perceived as superior alternatives to the public sector, often improving … achievement at a fraction of the cost. It is unclear whether private schools are as effective in middle-income countries where the …-income countries, these gains came at increased cost-twice as much on a per pupil basis relative to public schools. Additional analyses …
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Students around the world are going to school but are not learning -- an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 percent of the world's population from 2000 to...
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This paper evaluates and compares two randomized interventions in Tonga, one targeting the home environment of children up to age 5 and one targeting the school environment for first and second grade students. The first intervention supports communities to set up and run playgroups that aim to...
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This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment. The paper uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. The results...
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communities in Guatemala, where the number of pre-primary schools increased from about 5,300 to 11,500 between 1998 and 2005 …
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experiment in the Province of La Rioja Argentina, that randomly assigned 105 public primary schools to: (a) a "diagnostic …-ups and the results were made available to the schools through user-friendly reports; (b) a ?capacity-building? group for … which schools were provided with the reports and also workshops and school visits for supervisors, principals, and teachers …
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This paper studies the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation rates and test scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. The identification strategy is the random allocation into the program, which took place in 2009. The strategy...
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School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa region, as is demonstrated in this paper using data from...
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