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Infrastructure and girls' education: Bicycles, roads, and the gender education gap in India

Seebacher, Moritz - 2022

How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the … rate. Using Indian household survey data combined with a quadrupledifference estimation strategy, I find that the program …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap …

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Single-Sex Schooling and Student Performance: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from South Korea

Link, Susanne - 2012

math, but has no effects for boys. Moreover, comparisons within and across gender reveal that girls with low supporting …

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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana - 2013

We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each sector works with only one type of labor, skilled or unskilled, and individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital.Both sectors exhibit...

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The Effect of Pre-Service Cognitive and Pedagogical Teacher Skills on Student Achievement Gains: Evidence from German Entry Screening Exams

Enzi, Bernhard - 2017

Information about teachers’ effectiveness at the hiring stage is particularly scarce despite its importance for personnel decisions. Using the German setting of teacher training, I investigate the relationship of teachers’ pre-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state...

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The effect of teacher characteristics on students' science achievement

Sancassani, Pietro - 2021

Using data from TIMSS 2015, an international large-scale assessment of student skills, I investigate the effect of teacher characteristics on students' science achievement. My identification strategy exploits the feature that in many education systems different science domains (physics, biology,...

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School track decisions and teacher recommendations: Evidence from German state reforms

Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021

in Germany, either teachers or parents have the discretion to decide which secondary school track a child may attend …

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The unintended effects of the Common Core State Standards on non-targeted subjects

Arold, Benjamin W.; Shakeel, M. Danish - 2021

From 2010 onwards, most US states have aligned their education standards by adopting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for math and English Language Arts. The CCSS did not target other subjects such as science and social studies. We estimate spillovers of the CCSS on student achievement in...

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The Effect of Preschool Attendance on Secondary School Track Choice in Germany - Evidence from Siblings

Schlotter, Martin - 2011

largely predicts educational pathways of children. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, multivariate models show a … track, that is, German Gymnasium. Including family fixed effects in a sibling model, our estimates become …

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Can we grow with our children? The effects of a comprehensive early childhood development program

Rude, Britta - 2022

I exploit the staggered roll-out of a universal early childhood development program in Chile to assess the impact of a comprehensive approach to early childhood development on outcomes in middle childhood. Using variation across time and municipalities, I study outcomes such as school...

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Middle-run impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions: Evidence from a pioneer program in Chile

Rude, Britta - 2022

pronounced for girls and socioeconomically vulnerable children. Impacts on several other child development outcomes also differ … by gender and socioeconomic status. A cost-benefit analysis suggests that targeted programs might be more cost …

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