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Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the...
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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 …
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up to age 5 and one targeting the school environment for first and second grade students. The first intervention supports …'s readiness for school. Among children of mothers without high school education, being in a treatment community positively affects … the school readiness literacy domains and overall score by 0.19 and 0.2 standard deviation, respectively, for girls and …
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- and middle-income nations. This study estimates the effects of such an expansion on progression in primary school in rural …
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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 … disrupted learning environments, at the school and classroom levels, in the Middle East and North Africa region and to uncover …
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The effect of increasing school resources on educational outcomes is a central issue in the debate on improving school … quality. This paper uses a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which allowed … improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a central determinant of school quality …
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matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation …. Second, the paper presents the results of three types of value-added regressions, a (standard) level specification, a school … 0.50) student-level standard deviations by the time students complete the six-year primary school cycle …
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The number of countries that regularly participate in international large-scale assessments has increased sharply over the past 15 years, with the share of countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment growing from one-fifth of countries in 2000 to over one-third...
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school day. This paper examines the evidence on the relationship between instructional time and student learning, reviewing … 19 studies that measure the effects of longer school days in the region. It characterizes the differences in the … implementation of extended school day programs and provides one detailed case study and cost-effectiveness exercise, from Uruguay …
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of school size and class size on the performance of secondary schools on Ukraine's External Independent Test. They find …
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