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Schooling and Intergenerational Mobility : Consequences of Expanding Higher Education Institutions
Katzkowicz, Noemí; Lavy, Victor; Querejeta, Martina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Poor post-secondary education infrastructure and opportunities partly explain the low higher education rates in developing countries. This paper estimates the effect of a program that improved post-secondary education infrastructure by building many university campuses across Uruguay. Leveraging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437037
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Empowering mothers and enhancing early childhood investment : effect on adults outcomes and children cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Lavy, Victor; Lotti, Giulia; Yan, Zizhong - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607934
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Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment : Effect on Adults Outcomes and Children Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Lavy, Victor - 2016
Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an … Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455717
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Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment : Effect on Adults Outcomes and Children Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Lavy, Victor - 2016
Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an … Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976981
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The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards : Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2004
In many countries, college-bound high school seniors must pass a test or series of tests. In Israel, this requirement is known as the ?Bagrut?, or matriculation certificate, obtained by passing a series of subject tests. In spite of the Bagrut?s value, Israeli society is marked by vast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261895
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The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In many countries, college-bound high school seniors must pass a test or series of tests. In Israel, this requirement is known as the “Bagrut”, or matriculation certificate, obtained by passing a series of subject tests. In spite of the Bagrut’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822145
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The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards : Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2021
In many countries, college-bound high school seniors must pass a test or series of tests. In Israel, this requirement is known as the "Bagrut", or matriculation certificate, obtained by passing a series of subject tests. In spite of the Bagrut's value, Israeli society is marked by vast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319260
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Paying for Performance: The Effect of Teachers' Financial Incentives on Students' Scholastic Outcomes
Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Performance-related pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, but there is little evaluation to date on the effects of such programmes. This Paper evaluates a particular incentive experiment. The incentive program is a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656135
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The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In Israel, as in many other countries, a high school matriculation certificate is required by universities and some jobs. In spite of the certificate’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast differences in matriculation rates by region and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136481
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School Management Takeover, Leadership Change, and Personnel Policy
Duchini, Emma; Lavy, Victor; Machin, Stephen; Telhaj, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Low-performing, high-poverty, public schools notoriously struggle to attract and retain good teachers. This paper studies a setting where independent organizations, including charities and businesses, take over the management of under-performing schools, while funding remains public. Exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447315