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School-Based Management, School Decision-Making and Education Outcomes in Indonesian Primary Schools
Chen, Dandan - 2017
This paper examines the key aspects of the practices of school-based management in Indonesia, and its effect on … primary schools in Indonesia, the paper finds that the level of parental participation and voice in school management is … extremely low in Indonesia. While the role of school committees is still limited to community relations, school facilities, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975748
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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844584
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Training Teachers on the Job : What Works and How to Measure it
Arancibia, Violeta - 2017
A significant body of research demonstrates that teachers and the quality of their teaching are crucial components of student learning. Many teachers in resource-poor environments have limited knowledge, skills, or motivation. Some impact evaluations have shown promising results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967941
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Mobility, Scarring and Job Quality in Indonesia?S Labor Market
Naidoo, Darian - 2017
This paper investigates the occupational mobility and job quality of young people in Indonesia and relates this to the …
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Roads, Labor Markets, and Human Capital : Evidence from Rural Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017
This paper uses household panel data from rural Indonesia to examine the impact of road quality on labor supply and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972369
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How Technology Adoption and Trade are Shaping Indonesian Labor Markets
Viollaz, Mariana - 2019
different types of skills and aggregate labor market indicators in Indonesia over a period characterized by a commodity boom …
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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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Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) : Defining a New Macro Measure of Education
Filmer, Deon - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910425
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Charter School Entry and School Choice : The Case of Washington, D.C
Ferreyra, Maria Marta - 2017
This paper develops and estimates an equilibrium model of charter school entry and school choice. In the model, households choose among public, private, and charter schools, and a regulator authorizes charter entry and mandates charter exit. The model is estimated for Washington, D.C. According...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971316